Private-Sector Investment Does NOT Include Which of the Following

question 61

Multiple Choice

Private-sector investment does NOT include which of the following?

• A) Purchases of new capital goods by firms.
• B) Purchases of new houses by families.
• C) Purchases of new apartment buildings by landlords.
• D) Inventory investment by firms.
• E) Purchases of stocks and bonds by households and firms.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the individual data points differ from the mean of the data.

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Describes a symmetrical bell-shaped distribution of data points, where most of the data points cluster around a central peak and the probabilities for values farther from the mean taper off symmetrically in both directions.

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how much individual values differ from the mean.