Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 1

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A) The opportunity cost of capital is the best available expected return offered in the market on an investment of comparable risk and term of the cash flows being discounted.
• B) Interest rates we observe in the market will vary based on quoting conventions, the term of investment, and risk.
• C) The opportunity cost of capital is the return the investor forgoes when the investor takes on a new investment.
• D) For a risk-free project, the opportunity cost of capital will typically be greater than the interest rate of U.S. Treasury securities with a similar term.

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Definitions:

Variance

Measures the spread between numbers in a dataset, indicating how much the data points differ from the mean.

Significantly More

A statistical term indicating that an observed effect or difference is large enough that it is unlikely to have occurred by chance, based on a set significance level.

Independent Sample Variances

Variability measures of two or more independent samples, analyzed to understand difference across populations.

F Distribution

A probability distribution that arises in the analysis of variance tests, used to calculate and interpret the ratio of variances to determine statistical significance.