The risk of an investment is measured by the variability of the changes in its value over a fixed period, such as a year. More variation from year to year means more risk. The government's Securities and Exchange Commission wants to require mutual funds to tell investors how risky they are. A news article (New York Times, April 2, 1995) says that some people think that "the proposed risk descriptions, especially one that goes by the daunting name standard deviation" are hard to understand. Explain to a friend what the standard deviation means, using the fact that the changes in a mutual fund's value over many years have a roughly Normal distribution.

At the end of the week, carla receives her paycheck and goes directly to the bank after work to make a deposit into her savings account. the bank keeps the required reserve and then loans out the remaining balance to a qualified borrower named malik as a portion of his small business loan. malik uses the loan to buy a tractor for his construction business and makes small monthly payments to the bank to payback the principal balance plus interest on the loan. the bank profits from a portion of the interest payment received and also passes some of the interest back to carla in the form of an interest payment to her savings account. in this example, the bank is acting

Marco works in the marketing department of a luxury fashion brand. he is making a presentation on the success of a recent marketing campaign that included a fashion show. which slide elements can he use to include photographs and footage of the fashion show in his presentation? marco can use the: table images audio option to include photographs and the: flowcharts images video option to include footage of the fashion show.

The brs corporation makes collections on sales according to the following schedule: 30% in month of sale 66% in month following sale 4% in second month following sale the following sales have been budgeted: sales april $ 130,000 may $ 150,000 june $ 140,000 budgeted cash collections in june would be: