As of September 30, the Earnings Per Share (EPS) of Five

question 86

Multiple Choice

As of September 30, the earnings per share (EPS) of five firms in the beverages industry are as follows: (See the Excel Data File.) The 25^th percentile and the 75^th percentile of the EPS are the closest to ________.

• A) 0.77 and 1.97
• B) 0.91 and 1.77
• C) 1.77 and 0.91
• D) 1.97 and 0.77

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Definitions:

Cumulative Relative Frequency

The accumulation of the previous relative frequencies up to a certain class or point, showing the proportion of observations below a particular value in a dataset.

Dispersion

A measure of the spread of a distribution or the variability of data points around a central value.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Percentile

A measure used in statistics to indicate the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls.