INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the Word or Phrase in [ ] Which

question 163

Multiple Choice

INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the word or phrase in [ ] which will correctly complete the statement.
-The [higher | lower] the PE ratio,the less confidence investors are said to have in the corporation.

• A)for the first item
• B)for the second item
• C)if neither item will correctly complete the statement.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

Interquartile Range

The difference between the third quartile (75th percentile) and the first quartile (25th percentile), a measure of variability that indicates the spread of the middle 50% of a dataset.

Coefficient Of Variation

A standardized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution, calculated as the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean, expressed as a percentage.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a dataset.