(Adjusting prices to splits) Here are the stock price and split data for HeavySteel corporation.

a. Calculate the split-adjusted returns for each year and its statistics (mean and standard deviation).

b. If you bought 100 shares of this stock in the beginning of 2006 and during the period of 10 years never sold or bought additional shares, how many shares would you have by the end of 2015?

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1 2 A B HEAVYSTEEL CORPORATION 3 31-Dec-2005 4 31-Dec-2006 C Closing stock price Stock splits 17.98 19.67 5 31-Dec-2007 20.35 6 31-Dec-2008 11.02 2 for 1 7 31-Dec-2009 12.56 8 31-Dec-2010 13.45 9 31-Dec-2011 8.36 1.5 for 1 10 31-Dec-2012 9.01 11 31-Dec-2013 10.23 12 31-Dec-2014 9.23 13 31-Dec-2015 10.34