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Final exam scores: mean 67.5; standard deviation 13
Final exam solutions here. Have a good summer!!
Chapter 22: questions 2, 3, 6 - 11
(note: I don't recall if Prof. Rodriguez is teaching the two-state model; if he is, I'd add questions 4 and 5 into that list)
Chapter 13: anything between 13 - 27 will work; Chapter 15: 16-20, 23-25
As always, these are merely suggested problems. You should be able to handle nearly every problem in these chapters.
Test score statistics to date:
Average |
Standard Dev. |
|
| Midterm 1 | 69 |
15 |
| Midterm 2 | 75 |
15 |
| Quiz 1 | 2.5 |
0.87 |
| Quiz 2 | 2.5 |
0.60 |
| Quiz 3 | 2 |
0.84 |
| Quiz 4 | 1.5 |
0.80 |
Solutions to Midterm 2
(note: for question 11c, we accepted answers for pre- or post-tax cost savings)
Quiz 4 Solutions
Chapter 12 Recommended Problems: 7, 10, 14, 15, 16
Solutions to Midterm 2, Summer 2006
More questions from Chapter 10 (these are mostly of the CAPM/beta variety): 10, 12, 13, 25, 30, 31.
Quiz 3 solution is posted here. Apologies for the typo on the formula for the variance of a portfolio, though the formula was not actually necessary for solving question 3.
Good questions from the book: Chapter 7 - 2, 3, 16; Chapter 9 - 9, 12, 22; Chapter 10 - 3, 5, 23
The solution to Quiz 2 has been updated. I'm throwing out question 3, which provided an erroneous definition of "capital gains".
The midterm 1 solution has been posted.
Quiz 2 Solution is here.
Midterm 1, Summer 2006 Solutions are here.
For Section on July 6, we'll be discussing Midterm 1, Summer 2006.
Some recommended problems from Chapter 4, RWJ, 8th edition (in order of increasing difficulty): 12, 13, 23 (you don't need excel to solve this), 24, 28, 31, 46, 50, 58, 66, 68.
Quiz 1 Solution is here.
Chapter 4 Appendix: Download
Previous Exams - Summer 2006