The Largest Single Source of External Equity Capital for Small

question 58

Multiple Choice

The largest single source of external equity capital for small businesses is ________.

• A)angels
• B)venture capitalists
• C)Small Business Administration loans
• D)the stock market (i.e., "going public")

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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.