Which of the Following Statements Is False

question 36

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is false?

• A) When an investment is risky, there are different returns it may earn.
• B) In finance, the variance of a return is also referred to as its volatility.
• C) The expected or mean return is calculated as a weighted average of the possible returns, where the weights correspond to the probabilities.
• D) The variance is a measure of how "spread out" the distribution of the return is.

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