Rosa Walters Is Considering Investing $10,000 in Two Mutual Funds

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Essay

Rosa Walters is considering investing $10,000 in two mutual funds. The anticipated returns from price appreciation and dividends (in hundreds of dollars) are described by the probability distributions:
Mutual Fund A Mutual Fund B Compute (in dollars) the mean and variance associated with the returns for each mutual fund.
Mutual Fund A: $ __________
Var (X) =
$ __________
Mutual Fund B: $ __________
Var (X) =
$ __________

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