Series	Average return		Standard Deviation
Large-company stocks	10.9	%	21.2	%
Small-company stocks	16.4		33.0
Long-term corporate bonds	6.2		8.4
Long-term government bonds	6.1		9.4
Intermediate-term government bonds	5.6		5.7
U.S. Treasury bills	3.8		3.1
Inflation	3.1		4.2

What range of returns would you expect to see 68 percent of the time for large-company stocks?

Expected range of returns

What about 95 percent of the time?

Expected range of returns