Author Question: A financial analyst is presented with information on the past records of 60 start-up companies and ... (Read 39 times)

kamilo84 · **on:** Jun 24, 2018

A financial analyst is presented with information on the past records of 60 start-up companies and told that in fact only 3 of them have managed to become highly successful. He selected 3 companies from this group as the candidates for success. To analyze his ability to spot the companies that will eventually become highly successful, he will use what type of probability distribution?

A) Binomial distribution B) Poisson distribution
C) Hypergeometric distribution D) None of the above

Question 2

The portfolio expected return of two investments

A) will be higher when the covariance is negative. B) does not depend on the covariance.
C) will be higher when the covariance is positive. D) will be higher when the covariance is zero.