A Bond Has Macaulay Duration of 8

question 41

Multiple Choice

A bond has Macaulay duration of 8.65 years. If the yield to maturity is 8.4 percent, what is the modified duration?

• A) 7.98 years
• B) 8.14 years
• C) 8.30 years
• D) 7.86 years
• E) 8.23 years

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Definitions:

Service Rate

The speed at which a service provider can complete work or deliver services, often measured in customers served per unit of time or tasks completed per day.

Arrival Rate

The frequency at which entities (such as customers, materials, or information) reach a system or service point, often measured in entities per time unit.

Queue Discipline

Describes the rule or set of rules used to prioritize and manage elements in a queue, determining the order in which they are serviced.

M/M/1

A model in queueing theory representing a system with a single server where arrivals and service times are Poisson distributed.