You've observed the following returns on Bennington Corporation's stock over the past five years: 13 percent, -8 percent, 16 percent, 16 percent, and 10 percent. Suppose the average inflation rate over this period was 1.5 percent and the average T-bill rate over the period was 5 percent. a. What was the average real risk-free rate over this time period? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. What was the average real risk premium? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) a. Average real risk-free rate b. Average real risk premium % %

A security analyst has regressed the monthly returns on Exxon Mobil equity shares over the past five years against those on the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index over the same period. The resulting regression equation is TEM = 0.05+1.41rsp. Use this equation to estimate Exxon Mobil's equity beta. Note: Round your answer to 2 decimal places. Estimated Exxon Mobil's equity beta

You’ve observed the following returns on Pine Computer’s stock over the past five years: 13 percent, −13 percent, 20 percent, 25 percent, and 10 percent.   a. What was the arithmetic average return on the company’s stock over this five-year period? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 1 decimal place, e.g., 32.1.) b-1. What was the variance of the company’s returns over this period? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 5 decimal places, e.g., .16161.) b-2. What was the standard deviation of the company’s returns over this period? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)                  a. Average return   % b-1. Variance     b-2. Standard deviation   %

(Related to Checkpoint 7.2) (Calculating the geometric and arithmetic average rate of return) Marsh Inc. had the following end-of-year stock prices over the last five years and paid no cash dividends Time 2 Marsh $10 10 20 4 5 10 (Click on the icon in order to copy its contents into a spreadsheet) 7 a Calculate the annual rate of return for each year from the above information. b. What is the arithmetic average rate of retum earned by investing in Marsh's stock over this period? C. What is the geometric average rate of return earned by investing in Marsh's stock over this period? d. Considering the beginning and ending stock prices for the five-year period are the same, which type of average rate of return (the arithmetic or geometric) better describes the average annual rate of return earned over the period? a. The annual rate of return at the end of year 2 is%. (Round to two decimal places.) GILE