suppose the following information represents the return for General Motors (GM)

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suppose the following information represents the return for General Motors (GM) and American Telephone & Telegraph (ATT) common stocks over a five-year period: Year Revenue GM ATT 1 10% 12% 2 4 6 3 -9 -10 4 20 22 5 5 5 a) what is the mean return for the GM common stock? what is it for ATT common stock? b) what is the variance of the return for GM common stock? what is it for the ATT common stock? c) what is the standard deviation of the return for GM common stock? what is it for the ATT common stock? d) suppose the returns for the GM and ATT have normally distributed returns with means and standard deviations (SDs) calculated in problems b) and c) respectively. for each stock, determine the range of returns within one SD of the mean and the range within two SDs of the mean. Interpret the results e) given the data from problems a) c) and d) what is the probability that, in any given year, the return for GM common stock will be negative? what is the probability that the ATT return will be negative ?

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a)mean return for the GM common stock=6% mean return for the ATT common stock=7% b)variance of the return for GM common stock=88.4 variance of the return for ATT common stock=108.8 c)standard deviation of the return for GM common stock= 9.402% standard deviation of the return for ATT common stock= 10.431%

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