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Financial Forensics · End Term · Sep 2024 · AN

Financial Forensics · End Term · Sep 2024 AN

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Question 325 NAT · 4.0 marks

Security A has an expected return of 18% and a standard deviation of 20%. Security B has an expected return of 16% and a standard deviation of 25%. If the rates of return of the two securities have a correlation coefficient of 0.4, what is their covariance (in %)? **Note:**The answer is a single digit integer between 0-9.

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Question 327 MCQ · 1.0 marks

A company is facing a lawsuit from a customer. It is possible, but not probable, that the company will have to pay a settlement that management estimates to be ₹3,000,000. How would this fact be reported in the financial statements to be issued at the end of the current month?
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₹3,000,000 in the Current Liability section
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None because disclosure is not required
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₹3,000,000 in the Long-Term Liability section
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In a descriptive narrative in the footnote section

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Question 328 MCQ · 1.0 marks

You have been offered a job that pays an annual salary of ₹48,000, ₹51,000, and ₹55,000 over the next three years, respectively. The offer also includes a starting bonus of ₹2,500 payable immediately. What is this offer worth to you today at a discount rate of 6.5 percent?
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147610
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145110
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167500
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138601

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Question 329 MCQ · 1.0 marks

Phil's Carvings wants to have a weighted average cost of capital of 9.5 percent. The firm has an after tax cost of debt of 6.5 percent and a cost of equity of 12.75 percent. What debt-equity ratio is needed for the firm to achieve its targeted weighted average cost of capital?
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0.84
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0.92
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1.08
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0.76

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Question 330 MCQ · 1.0 marks

A firm has a return on equity of 25 percent. The total asset turnover is 2.4 and the profit margin is 8 percent. The total equity is ₹ 4,100. What is the net income?
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₹ 2,460
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₹ 787
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₹ 427
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₹ 1,025

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Question 331 MCQ · 1.0 marks

According to the CAPM, the expected return on a security is:
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Negatively and non-linearly related to the security's beta.
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Positively and linearly related to the security's variance.
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Positively and non-linearly related to the security's beta.
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Positively and linearly related to the security's beta.

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Question 332 MCQ · 1.0 marks

What is the relationship between the IRR and the cost of capital?
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The IRR must be lower than the cost of capital for the investment to be profitable.
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The IRR must be higher than the cost of capital for the investment to be profitable.
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The IRR and cost of capital are unrelated.
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The IRR and cost of capital have an inverse relationship.

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Question 333 MCQ · 1.0 marks

PQR financials is a loan provider for businesses, and it is evaluating the following companies for providing a loan. a. Company A: Debt Equity Ratio: 0.8, Times Interest Earned: 8 b. Company B: Debt Equity Ratio: 0.2, Times Interest Earned: 8 c. Company C: Debt Equity Ratio: 0.8, Times Interest Earned: 2 d. Company D: Debt Equity Ratio: 0.2, Times Interest Earned: 2 As a financial analyst of PQR, you have to review the above information and provide a recommendation to the CEO of the company. What would be your recommendation to the CEO, regarding the best company to give the loan to?
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Company A
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Company B
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Company C
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Company D

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Question 334 MCQ · 1.0 marks

At the beginning of the month the company hired workers and employees for a total monthly remuneration of ₹ 75,000 payable at the end of each month. How would this transaction reflect in the income statement and balance sheet at the beginning of the month?
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Expense will increase by ₹ 75,000 and liabilities will also increase by equal amount
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Expense will increase by ₹ 75000 and cash will decrease by the equal amount
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There will be no effect on cash flow statement and balance sheet.
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Only expenses will increase by ₹ 75000

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Question 335 MCQ · 1.0 marks

All of the following are long-term liabilities except:
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Bonds payable
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Current maturities of bank loan
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Mortgage payable
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Lease liabilities

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Question 336 MCQ · 1.0 marks

A company provided the following cash flow details under financing activities for the year: ● Proceeds from issuing shares: ₹8,00,000 ● Repayment of a long-term loan: ₹4,50,000 ● Payment of dividends: ₹1,25,000 ● Issuance of new debt: ₹3,00,000 ● Share buyback: ₹2,50,000 What is the net cash flow from financing activities?
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₹2,75,000
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₹3,75,000
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₹5,75,000
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₹6,75,000

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Question 337 MCQ · 1.0 marks

A fintech company has a ML system that identifies transaction frauds that occur in its system. The model currently has a recall of 99.9%. The fraud rate, as reported by the company in its system is 20 BPS. On a regular day there are close to above 1 million transactions that happens via the company’s payment system, and for each fraudulent transaction the company losses INR 10 on an average. The annual savings (INR) brought in by the ML system is:
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Question 338 MCQ · 1.0 marks

A time series dataset shows quarterly sales data for a company over 5 years. The company observes the following characteristics: ● The sales exhibit a linear upward trend of 5 units per quarter. ● A seasonal pattern is present, where sales increase by +20 units in Quater 2 and Quater 4, and decrease by −15 units in Quater 1 and Quater 3. ● The time series is non-stationary due to the trend. If the sales in Q1 of the first year were 200, what will be the forecasted sales in Q4 of the 5th year, assuming no randomness?
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295
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375
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315
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395

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Question 339 MCQ · 1.0 marks

What does the autocorrelation function (ACF) measure in time series analysis?
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The relationship between dependent and independent variables.
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The degree of randomness in the data.
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The correlation between the current value and a lagged value of the series.
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The difference between the current value and the mean of the series.

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Question 340 MCQ · 1.0 marks

If a model predicts the positive class for all observations in a binary classification problem with both positive and negative cases present with class balance 1:99 (positive : negative), which of the following statements is true?
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Both Recall and Precision are 100%.
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Recall is 100%, but Precision is not necessarily 100%.
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Precision is 100%, but Recall is not necessarily 100%.
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Neither Recall nor Precision are 100%.
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None of these

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Question 341 MCQ · 1.0 marks

What is the KS of the below gains table?
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57.72%
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50.11%
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39.81%
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36.45%
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Data Insufficient

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Question 342 MCQ · 1.0 marks

What is the Capture Rate of Bads at top 10%?
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100%
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63.77%
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76.05%
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48.33%
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Data Insufficient

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Question 343 MCQ · 1.0 marks

What is the Capture Rate of applications having score greater than 273?
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100%
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68.33%
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0
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48.33%
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Data Insufficient

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Question 344 MCQ · 1.0 marks

The Bankruptcy Bank, one of the major lending banks, has hired you to build a credit underwriting model to help their automated lending decisions. Their definition of default is 60-89 DPD. There is historical loans data since January 1, 2021 till November 30, 2024. Which of the following is true?
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Jan’21 – Nov’24 data should be used for model training
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Jan’21 – Sep’24 data should be used for model training
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Jan’21 – Mar’21 data should be ignored from model training
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Sep’24 – Nov’24 data should be ignored from model training
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None of these

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Question 345 MCQ · 1.0 marks

Which of the following is used to decide target variable definition?
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Reject Inferencing
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Roll rate analysis
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Both Reject Inferencing and Roll rate analysis
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Vintage analysis
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None of these

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Question 346 MCQ · 1.0 marks

Which of the following is the last step in credit lifecycle?
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Underwriting
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Reject Inferencing
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Collections
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Propensity
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Fraud check

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Question 347 MCQ · 1.0 marks

Which of the following is the first step in credit lifecycle?
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Underwriting
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Reject Inferencing
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Collections
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Propensity
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Fraud check

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Question 348 MCQ · 1.0 marks

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The model overestimates the risk compared to the base value
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Credit Score and Income push the prediction higher
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Income and Employment History compensate exactly for the base value increase
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The sum of feature contributions matches the prediction difference

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Question 349 MCQ · 1.0 marks

Which of the following is a key property of Shapley values?
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They always assign the highest importance to the most frequent features.
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They are always zero for features that do not influence the model.
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They provide an explanation based on the absolute values of features.
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They cannot be applied to regression models.

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Question 350 MCQ · 1.0 marks

What does a large horizontal spread of points in a SHAP summary plot indicate?
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Low model complexity
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High feature variability and importance
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Perfect feature correlation
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Uniform predictions

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Question 351 MCQ · 1.0 marks

In the below summary plot find the model predicted value
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-58.767
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58.767
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-56.93
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+56.93

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Question 352 MCQ · 1.0 marks

**Story: The Final Puzzle of the Cursed Map** In the heart of an ancient temple, Emma, Liam, Noah, and Sophia uncovered **four fragments** of a long-lost map, believed to lead to a hidden treasure—the Heart of Eternity. However, the map was cursed: only **three of the four fragments fit together** to reveal the location of the treasure. Using their AI assistant, the team converted the fragments into vectors:
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The curse demanded that the team identify the **three most aligned fragments** to unlock the treasure. Using cosine similarity, they must calculate the alignment between every pair of fragments to decide which one to discard. Time is ticking, and the howls of the jungle grow louder… Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Which three fragments fit best?
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A, B, D
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A, C, B
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A, C, D
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B, C, D

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Question 353 MCQ · 1.0 marks

**Story: The Final Puzzle of the Cursed Map** In the heart of an ancient temple, Emma, Liam, Noah, and Sophia uncovered **four fragments** of a long-lost map, believed to lead to a hidden treasure—the Heart of Eternity. However, the map was cursed: only **three of the four fragments fit together** to reveal the location of the treasure. Using their AI assistant, the team converted the fragments into vectors:
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The curse demanded that the team identify the **three most aligned fragments** to unlock the treasure. Using cosine similarity, they must calculate the alignment between every pair of fragments to decide which one to discard. Time is ticking, and the howls of the jungle grow louder… Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Which pair has the least similarity?
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A,B
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B,D
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C,D
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A,C

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Question 354 MCQ · 1.0 marks

**Story: The Final Puzzle of the Cursed Map** In the heart of an ancient temple, Emma, Liam, Noah, and Sophia uncovered **four fragments** of a long-lost map, believed to lead to a hidden treasure—the Heart of Eternity. However, the map was cursed: only **three of the four fragments fit together** to reveal the location of the treasure. Using their AI assistant, the team converted the fragments into vectors:
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The curse demanded that the team identify the **three most aligned fragments** to unlock the treasure. Using cosine similarity, they must calculate the alignment between every pair of fragments to decide which one to discard. Time is ticking, and the howls of the jungle grow louder… Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
The highest cosine similarity among the pairs is:
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0
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0.986
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0.973
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0.993

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Question 355 MCQ · 1.0 marks

**Story: The Final Puzzle of the Cursed Map** In the heart of an ancient temple, Emma, Liam, Noah, and Sophia uncovered **four fragments** of a long-lost map, believed to lead to a hidden treasure—the Heart of Eternity. However, the map was cursed: only **three of the four fragments fit together** to reveal the location of the treasure. Using their AI assistant, the team converted the fragments into vectors:
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The curse demanded that the team identify the **three most aligned fragments** to unlock the treasure. Using cosine similarity, they must calculate the alignment between every pair of fragments to decide which one to discard. Time is ticking, and the howls of the jungle grow louder… Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
The cosine similarity between B,D is:
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0
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0.953
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0.935
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0.889

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Question 356 SHORT_TEXT · 1.0 marks

You have a binary classifier that classifies a transaction as "fraud" (model says it is fraud), otherwise we assume it is "not fraud". Assume that: - 1% of all transactions is fraud - When an transaction is fraud, the model classifies it as "fraud" 99% of the time - When an transaction is not fraud, the model classifies it as "not fraud" 99% of the time. What is the precision of the model? Express your answer as a percentage

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Question 357 NAT · 1.0 marks

What is the Roll Back rate for 120-149 DPD after 18 MOB?(in %)
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Question 358 NAT · 1.0 marks

What is the Roll Forward rate for 60-89 DPD after 18 MOB in ?(in %)
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