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returns of 6 percent, 14 percent, 13 percent, 9 percent, and -4 percent for the past five years, respectively. What is the standard deviation of these returns
=> Formula to calculate standard deviation is:
,where
x is the return, 
 is the average of returns and n is the number of observations.
=> Average of returns (
)
= 
Therefore, 
= 7.6%

Here Deviation is (x - 
) , Deviations squared is 
 and variance is 
=> Therefore, Standard deviation of the returns = 0.0723 or 7.23 %
=> Formula used:
