Stock X Has a Standard Deviation of 21 Percent Per

question 2

Multiple Choice

Stock X has a standard deviation of 21 percent per year and stock Y has a standard deviation of 6 percent per year.The correlation between stock A and stock B is .38.You have a portfolio of these two stocks wherein stock X has a portfolio weight of 42 percent.What is your portfolio standard deviation?

• A)8.89 percent
• B)9.85 percent
• C)10.64 percent
• D)11.84 percent
• E)12.92 percent

Calculate standard deviation and variance for discrete random variables.

Calculate expected values for discrete random variables.

Understand and identify discrete and continuous random variables and their possible values.

Calculate probabilities related to discrete random variables.

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