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 Tech Stocks Close Change AAPL (Apple) $113.40 –1.81 ADBE (Adobe Systems) $84.66 1.34 EBAY (eBay) $25.61 –0.31 MSFT (Microsoft) $3.90 –0.21 S (Sprint) $4.40 0.02 WIFI (Boingo Wireless) $8.51 0.56 Non-Tech Stocks ANF (Abercrombie & Fitch $21.81 –0.02 B (Boeing) $133.99 –2.03 F (Ford Motor Co.) $13.91 –0.40 GE (General Electric) $25.10 0.01 GIS (General Mills) $57.12 0.33 JNJ (Johnson & Johnson) $93.26 0.13 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 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 Tech Stocks Close Change AAPL (Apple) $113.40 –1.81 ADBE (Adobe Systems) $84.66 1.34 EBAY (eBay) $25.61 –0.31 MSFT (Microsoft) $3.90 –0.21 S (Sprint) $4.40 0.02 WIFI (Boingo Wireless) $8.51 0.56 Non-Tech Stocks ANF (Abercrombie & Fitch $21.81 –0.02 B (Boeing) $133.99 –2.03 F (Ford Motor Co.) $13.91 –0.40 GE (General Electric) $25.10 0.01 GIS (General Mills) $57.12 0.33 JNJ (Johnson & Johnson) $93.26 0.13 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?
Solution Summary: The author calculates the number of collections of stocks where you purchase a collection of 3 stocks from the table.
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
Tech Stocks
Close
Change
AAPL (Apple)
$113.40
–1.81
ADBE (Adobe Systems)
$84.66
1.34
EBAY (eBay)
$25.61
–0.31
MSFT (Microsoft)
$3.90
–0.21
S (Sprint)
$4.40
0.02
WIFI (Boingo Wireless)
$8.51
0.56
Non-Tech Stocks
ANF (Abercrombie & Fitch
$21.81
–0.02
B (Boeing)
$133.99
–2.03
F (Ford Motor Co.)
$13.91
–0.40
GE (General Electric)
$25.10
0.01
GIS (General Mills)
$57.12
0.33
JNJ (Johnson & Johnson)
$93.26
0.13
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?
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