The Standard Deviation of the Past Five Monthly Returns for K

question 29

Multiple Choice

The standard deviation of the past five monthly returns for K and Company are 2.28 percent, 2.64 percent, −1.05 percent, 4.25 percent, and 9.25 percent. What is the standard deviation?

• A) 1.45 percent
• B) 1.62 percent
• C) 3.47 percent
• D) 3.76 percent

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Treaty of Lubeck

A peace agreement signed in 1629 that ended the conflict between the Holy Roman Emperor and Denmark-Norway during the Thirty Years' War.

Thirty Years' War

A destructive conflict in Central Europe between 1618-1648, involving many European powers, initially fought largely as a religious war between Protestants and Catholics.

Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre

A targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Catholic mob violence, against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) in 1572.

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French Protestants who followed the Reformed tradition, heavily persecuted in France before being granted rights in the Edict of Nantes in 1598.