Security M Has Expected Return of 17% and Standard Deviation

question 10

Multiple Choice

Security M has expected return of 17% and standard deviation of 32%. Security S has expected return of 13% and standard deviation of 19%. If the two securities have a correlation coefficient of 0.78, what is their
Covariance?

• A) 0.038
• B) 0.049
• C) 0.047
• D) 0.045
• E) 0.054

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