Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 76

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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