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Over the past year you earned a nominal rate of interest of 12.5% on your money. The inflation rate was 2.6% over the same period. The exact actual growth rate of your purchasing power was

9.15%.

9.90%.

9.65%.

10.52%.

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You have been given this probability distribution for the holding-period return for Cheese, Inc. stock: Assuming that the expected return on Cheese's stock is 14.35%, what is the standard deviation of these returns?

4.72%

6.30%

4.38%

5.74%

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You purchase a share of CAT stock for $90. One year later, after receiving a dividend of $4, you sell the stock for $97. What was your holding-period return?

14.44%

12.22%

13.33%

5.56%

If a portfolio had a return of 8%, the risk-free asset return was 3%, and the standard deviation of the portfolio's excess returns was 20%, the Sharpe measure would be

0.08.

0.03.

0.20.

0.11.

0.25.