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Why is the volatility of a geometric average of a lognormal path lower than that of the terminal price?
- AAveraging correlated observations reduces variance; for continuous averaging it falls to
- BThe average is bounded and the terminal price is not
- CBecause the geometric mean is always below the arithmetic mean
- DBecause averaging removes the drift
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