The Variance of the Return on the Market Portfolio Is

question 63

Multiple Choice

The variance of the return on the market portfolio is .0400 and the expected return on the market portfolio is 20%.If the risk-free rate of return is 10%,the market degree of risk aversion,A,is _________.

• A) 0.5
• B) 2.5
• C) 3.5
• D) 5.0

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A standard for gauging the extent of variability or distribution across a series of values.

Normally Distributed

Describes a bell-shaped distribution that is symmetric about the mean, where data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how spread out the data points are from the mean.