A stock was bought for $57 and sold for $58 after one year. The stock paid a dividend of $4 during the holding period. What is the holding period return?

Your fund’s risky portfolio has an expected return of 16% and a standard deviation of 30%. The risk-free rate is 4%. Based on your advice, your client goes with a risky portfolio allocation of 75%. What is the expected return on their complete portfolio?

Your fund’s risky portfolio has an expected return of 11% and a standard deviation of 22%. The risk-free rate is 3%. Based on your advice, your client goes with a risky portfolio allocation of 25%. What is the expected return on their complete portfolio?

You bought 20 shares of a $100 stock on margin one year ago. Today, the stock is worth $107 per share. You initially posted 75% margin. Ignoring any interest due and margin calls, calculate your rate of return.

Assuming that you are given the following datasets: flood zone map of the U.S. with polygons delineating areas (in polygons) prone to flooding; a map showing all properties in polygons that had filed a flood insurance claim in the past five years. It is believed that the flood zone map needs to be updated. Describe clearly and precisely the data/variables, process, specific functions-operations and parameter values that are required to complete the following task: identify the areas in the flood zone map that need to be updated and the types of update. If you need to make any assumptions, explicitly state these assumptions.

“In network analysis, the best route is the least cost route.”

  Given the above three raster layers and using map algebra concepts and functions, what should be the output layers (OutLayer) of the following operations? Provide your answers by cells from left to right, and then top to bottom. OutLayer = Overlay (LayerA + LayerB). Ignore Layer C in this question.

Across the entire U.S., geocoding through address matching using 2010 or earlier TIGER street database was highly accurate because the street database had the coordinate of every house.

“During a neighborhood operation, all moving windows have the same dimension and the same set of weights within the study area”

  Given the above three raster layers, using map algebra concepts and functions, what should be the output layers (OutLayer) of the following operations? Provide your answers by cells from left to right, and then top to bottom. Layer C is not used in this question. OutLayer = ZonalAverage(LayerA, (Is.LayerB>=50)) where LayerA is the input layer, and the second parameter of the zonal function defines the zones (or the zone layer).