The Crinoids

question 84

Multiple Choice

The crinoids

• A)have the most primitive characters.
• B)have far fewer living species than are found in the fossil record.
• C)include the shallow-water feather stars of tropical oceans.
• D)include sea lilies that resemble a stalked flower.
• E)all of the choices are correct.

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Definitions:

Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT)

A financial model that estimates the price of assets based on the relationship between their expected return and macroeconomic factors that influence all assets' returns.

Market Risk Premium

The surplus return an investor aspires to earn by holding onto a market portfolio fraught with risks as compared to safeguarded, risk-free assets.

Beta

An indicator of the variability of a stock's performance compared to the general market, where a beta greater than 1 suggests a volatility superior to that of the market.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a dataset relative to its mean, used in finance to quantify the volatility of an investment.