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Day Trading Day traders typically buy and sell stocks (or other investment instruments) during the trading day and sell all investments by the end of the day. Exercises 63 and 64 are based on the following table, which shows the closing prices on September $22,2015,$ of 12 stocks selected by your broker, Prudence Swift, as well as the change that day. $^{22}$ On the morning of September $22,2015,$ Swift advised you to purchase a collection of three tech stocks and two non-tech stocks, all chosen at random from those listed in the table. You were to sell all the stocks at the end of the trading day. a. How many possible collections are possible? b. You tend to have bad luck with stocks-they usually start going down the moment you buy them. How many of the collections in part (a) consist entirely of stocks that declined in value by the end of the day? c. Using the answers to parts (a) and (b), what would you say your chances were of choosing a collection consisting entirely of stocks that declined in value by the end of the day?
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Day Trading Day traders typically buy and sell stocks (or other investment instruments) during the trading day and sell all investments by the end of the day. Exercises 63 and 64 are based on the following table, which shows the closing prices on September $22,2015,$ of 12 stocks selected by your broker, Prudence Swift, as well as the change that day. $^{22}$ On the morning of September $22,2015,$ Swift advised your friend to purchase a collection of three stocks chosen at random from those listed in the table. Your friend was to sell all the stocks at the end of the trading day. a. How many possible collections are possible? b. How many of the collections in part (a) included exactly two tech stocks that increased in value by the end of the day? c. Using the answers to parts (a) and (b), what would you say the chances were that your friend chose a collection that included exactly two tech stocks that increased in value by the end of the day?
Day traders typically buy and sell stocks (or other investment instruments) during the trading day and sell all investments by the end of the day. Exercises 57 and 58 are based on the following table, which shows the closing prices on January 9, 2009, of 12 stocks selected by your broker, Prudence Swift, as well as the change that day.$$\begin{array}{|l|c|c|}\hline \text { Tech Stocks } & \text { Close } & \text { Change } \\\hline \text { AAPL (Apple) } & \$ 90.58 & -2.12 \\\hline \text { MSFT (Microsoft) } & \$ 19.52 & -0.60 \\\hline \text { NOK (Nokia) } & \$ 15.21 & -0.16 \\\hline \text { NT (Nortel) } & \$ 0.39 & 0.10 \\\hline \text { RIMM (Research in Motion) } & \$ 47.99 & 1.49 \\\hline \text { S (Sprint Nextel) } & \$ 2.59 & 0.01 \\\hline \text { Non-Tech Stocks } & & \\\hline \text { DIS (Walt Disney) } & \$ 22.31 & -0.59 \\\hline \text { DUK (Duke) } & \$ 15.27 & -0.14 \\\hline \text { ED (Con Ed) } & \$ 39.66 & 0.20 \\\hline \text { FE (First Energy) } & \$ 48.90 & 1.14 \\\hline \text { MO (Altria Group) } & \$ 15.48 & 0.38 \\\hline \text { NVS (Novarnis) } & \$ 48.16 & -1.46 \\\hline\end{array}$$ On the morning of January 9,2009 , Swift advised your friend to purchase a collection of three stocks chosen at random from those listed in the table. Your friend was to sell all the stocks at the end of the trading day. a. How many possible collections are possible? b. How many of the collections in part (a) included exactly two tech stocks that increased in value by the end of the day? c. Using the answers to parts (a) and (b), what would you say the chances were that your friend chose a collection that included exactly two tech stocks that increased in value by the end of the day?
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