Question: Can someone tell me which values to use when using the standard devation function (STDEV) in excel? Also, could someone tell me which values to

Can someone tell me which values to use when using the standard devation function (STDEV) in excel?

Also, could someone tell me which values to use when using the Slope function in excel (part C)

And check my work on the rates of return and average if you can too please!!

Thank you!!

Risk & Beta
Year Facebook (FB) Stock Price Twitter (TWTR) Stock Price Market (S&P 500 market index) Value
2015 $105.02 $23.14 1,637.51
2014 $78.45 $36.56 1,543.52
2013 $53.32 $60.01 1,237.52
A) Rates of return
Year FB TWTR Market
2015 9.28% -12.91% -12.91%
2014 13.63% 13.63% -17.96%
2013 11.64% 11.64% -108.90%
Average 11.52% 4.12% -46.59%
B) Standard Deviation of Returns
FB TWTR Market
C) Graph Stock Returns and Market Returns
FB TWTR
Slope from linear trendline Slope from linear trendline

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