You Recently Earned a 13% Return on an Investment During

question 72

Multiple Choice

You recently earned a 13% return on an investment during the preceding year.If the rate of inflation during that period is 8% what was your real return during that period?

• A) 5%
• B) 4.63%
• C) 4.42%
• D) none of the above.

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Definitions:

Quasi-experimental Designs

Research designs that attempt to establish cause-and-effect relationships but lack random assignment to treatment and control groups.

Random Assignment

The allocation of study participants to different groups by chance, minimizing pre-existing differences between those groups.

True Experiments

A type of scientific experiment where the researcher manipulates one variable, and controls/randomizes the rest of the variables.

Construct Validity

The degree to which a test or instrument accurately measures the theoretical construct it is intended to measure.