Continuing with the same family from the preceding question, what is the greatest (integer) number of vacation days the family would be willing to give up in order to guarantee a healthy vacation?

By spreading her investments out over many different assets, an investor achieves

A) a higher expected return. B) increased risk. C) diversification. D) greater liquidity.

Developments which marked the beginning of the modern period of Western Europe around the year 1500 did not include which of the following?

(a) The rise of nation states and decline in power of the feudal nobility (b) The Protestant Reformation (c) Creation of national markets, commercial growth and exploration abroad (d) The rise of Islam to centralized power in North America