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silviawilliams41

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A stockbroker has kept a daily record of the value of a particular stock over the years and finds that prices of the stock form a normal distribution with a mean of 8.52 with a standard deviation of 2.38 . The stock price beyond which 0.05 of the distribution falls is _________.
 
  a.  4.60 c.  4.57
  b. 12.47 d. 12.44

Question 2

A stockbroker has kept a daily record of the value of a particular stock over the years and finds that prices of the stock form a normal distribution with a mean of 8.52 with a standard deviation of 2.38. What percentage of the distribution lies below 7.42.
 
  a. 17.72 c. 82.28
  b. 32.28 d. 31.92


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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

B


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