Question

you've observed the following returns on crash-n-Burn computers stock over the past five years: 17 percent, -4 percent, 20 percent, 12 percent, and 10 percent. a) what was the arithmetic average return on the company's stock over this five year periods?

Answer 1

Answer:  11%

Explanation:

Arithemetic mean is the average of a set of numeric variables that is calculated by adding them up and dividing by the number of variables there are.

= (0.17 + (-0.04) + 0.2 + 0.12 + 0.10)/5

= 0.55/5

= 0.11

= 11%