A Stock Analyst Attempts to Express the Price P of a Share

question 16

Multiple Choice

A stock analyst attempts to express the price p of a share of XYZ stock as an exponentially increasing function of the time since XYZ's initial public offering (IPO) : , where m is the number of months since the IPO.The price of a share was $10.00 at the time of the IPO and $13.60 four months after the IPO.What is the approximate value of k? Round to the nearest thousandth.

• A) 0.653 per month
• B) 0.077 per month
• C) 3.400 per month
• D) 1.224 per month
• E) 13.009 per month

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