Question

Calculate the geometric mean return for the following data set: (Negative value should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your intermediate calculations to at least 4 decimal places and final answer to 2 decimal places.)

–10%	11%	–12%	9.7%	10.1%

What is the Geometric return? _______ %

Answer 1

here from given data ;

Geometric return for 5 year returns =(((1-0.1)*(1+0.11)*(1-0.12)*(1-0.097)*(1+0.101))^1/5-1)*100

=1.21%