An investor wants to determine the safest way to structure a portfolio from several investments. investment a produces an average annual return of 14% with a variance of 0.025. investment b produces an average rate of return of 9% with a variance of 0.015. investment c produces an average rate of return of 8% with a variance of 0.010. investments a and b have a covariance of 0.00028, and investments a and c have a covariance of -0.006. investments b and c have a covariance of 0.00125.

Brainliest ! which of the coordinates are not of th vertices of the feasible region for the system of inequalities y≤4,,x≤5,x+y> 6 a(2,4) b(0,6) c(5,4) d(5,1)

Michelle and julie work at a catering company. they need to bake 264 cookies for a birthday party that starts in a little over an hour and a half. each tube of cookie dough claims to make 36 cookies, but michelle eats about 1/5 of every tube and julie makes cookies that are 1.5 times as large as the recommended cookie size. it takes about 8 minutes to bake a container of cookies, but since julie's cookies are larger, they take 12 minutes to bake. a. how many tubes should each girl plan to bake? how long does each girl use the oven? b. explain your solution process what did you make? c. what assumptions did you make?

The federal reserve controls certain interest rates in the united states. investors often try to speculate as to whether the federal reserve will raise or lower rates and by how much. suppose a company conducts extensive interviews with financial analysts, and as a result, predicts that "thefed" will increase rates by an average of 0.25 percentage points every six months for the forseeable future. which type of equation could be used to model the predicted interest rates over the next several years, assuming no other significant changes? a) a linear equation b) a quadratic equation c) a polynomial equation d) an exponential equation