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(a) 0.0072, 0.09, 0.0002.

(b) 0.0139, 0.18, 0.0005.

(c) 0.0139, 6.2876, 0.0055.

(d) 0.015, 0.1956, 0.0005.

(e) 0.015, 0.1956, 0.006.

(a) Stock A has less systematic risk than stock B, so stock A's return should be less than stock B's.

(b) Stock B has the same systematic risk as the market, so its return should be the same as the market's.

(c) Stock B has the same beta as the market, so it also has the same total risk as the market.

(d) If stock A and B were combined in a portfolio with weights of 50% each, the beta of the portfolio would be 0.75.

(e) Stocks A and B have more systematic risk than the risk free security (government bonds) so their return should be greater than the risk free rate.

(a) 1: short call, 2: long call, 3: short put, 4: long put.

(b) 1: long call, 2: long put, 3: short call, 4: short put.

(c) 1: short put, 2: long put, 3: short call, 4: long call.

(d) 1: long put, 2: short put, 3: long call, 4: short call.

(e) 1: short call, 2: long put, 3: long call, 4: short put.

(a) The project should be rejected.

(b) The project's IRR is more than its required return.

(c) The project's payback period will be less than 3 years.

(d) The project's IRR is equal to its required return.

(e) The project's NPV is greater than 1.

(a) $13.50

(b) $15.00

(c) $30.00

(d) $31.50

(e) $45.00

(a) 1.55 USD per GBP

(b) 120.61 JPY per USD

(c) 6.32 RMB per USD

(d) 1 USD = 1.31 CAD

(e) 0.99 CHF = 1 USD

You own a debt asset. Are you a or a ?

(a) Alice buys Alan’s shares using their share brokers and the securities exchange.

(b) Bell buys Bob’s house using his real estate agent.

(c) Carla lends Carlos money at an interest rate of 10% pa for 3 years.

(d) Dora lends money to her bank at 2% pa and the bank lends the funds to David at 5% pa.

(e) Eve buys Ernie’s government bond using their brokers and the securities exchange.

(a) Adam’s opportunity cost of picking one date per hour is 7/6 coconuts, so he picks around 1.1667 coconuts per one date per one hour.

(b) Bella’s opportunity cost of picking one date per hour is 3/5 coconuts, so she picks around 0.6 coconuts per one date per one hour.

(c) Adam’s opportunity cost of picking one coconut per hour is 6/7 dates, so he picks around 0.8571 dates per one coconut per one hour.

(d) Bella’s opportunity cost of picking one coconut per hour is 5/3 dates, so she picks around 1.6667 dates per one coconut per one hour.

(e) The gradients (rise over run) of the lines in the graph are measured in dates per one coconut per hour.

(a) Bond holders like convexity, it’s good for them.

(b) Bond issuers like convexity, it’s good for them.

(c) If yields rise, convex bonds lose less value than non-convex bonds of equal duration.

(d) If yields fall, convex bonds gain more value than non-convex bonds of equal duration.