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Table 24-13

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Table 24-13. Olivia's expenditures on clothing for three consecutive years, along with some values for the CPI, are presented in the table below.
-Refer to Table 24-13. Suppose Olivia's 2009 clothing expenditure in 2010 dollars amounts to $1,440. Then X, the consumer price index for 2009, has a value of

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Expected Return

The weighted average of all possible returns for a financial investment, with each return's weight being its probability of occurrence.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

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