It Is Claimed That Mutual Funds Have Two Advantages

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Multiple Choice

It is claimed that mutual funds have two advantages.The first is that mutual funds allow people with small amounts of money to diversify.The second is that mutual funds provide the skills of professional money managers who buy stocks they believe will be the most profitable and thereby increase the return that mutual fund depositors earn on their savings.

• A)Economists strongly agree with both claims.
• B)Economists are skeptical of both claims.
• C)Economists are skeptical of the first claim,but strongly agree with the second.
• D)Economists strongly agree with the first claim,but are skeptical of the second.

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Definitions:

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information involved in estimating a parameter or calculating a statistic, often related to the sample size.

Interaction Effects

Occur when the effect of one independent variable on a dependent variable changes depending on the level of another independent variable.

Main Effects

The direct, independent impacts of individual independent variables on a dependent variable in the context of factorial designs.

Total Mean

The overall average of a set of numbers or measurements, calculated by summing all the values and dividing by the number of observations.