John has a portfolio consisting of equal proportions of 5 securities. Susan also has a portfolio of the same five securities but the weights of each security are not equal. Which of the statements below MUST be TRUE? a) Because Susan has an unequal distribution of securities, her portfolio beta must be greater than John's.

b) Because Susan has an unequal distribution of securities, her portfolio beta must be less than John's.

c) Without additional information, we cannot be certain whose portfolio beta is greater.

d) Because the portfolios contain the same securities, the beta of each portfolio must be the same.

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Stocks a, b, and c are similar in some respects: each has an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 25%. stocks a and b have returns that are independent of one another; i. e., their correlation coefficient, r, equals zero. stocks a and c have returns that are negatively correlated with one another; i. e., r is less than 0. portfolio ab is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half in stock b. portfolio ac is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half invested in stock c. which of the following statements is correct? a. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is greater than 25%.b. portfolio ac has an expected return that is less than 10%.c. portfolio ac has a standard deviation that is less than 25%.d. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is equal to 25%.e. portfolio ac has an expected return that is greater than 25%.

In june 2009, at the trough of the great recession, the bureau of labor statistics announced that of all adult americans, 140,196,000 were employed, 14,729,000 were unemployed and 80,729,000 were not in the labor force. use this information to calculate: a. the adult population b. the labor force c. the labor-force participation rate d. the unemployment rate