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1. You purchased shares of a mutual fund at a price of $36.75 per share at the beginning of the year and paid a front-end load of 6.5%. If the securities in which the fund invested increased in value by 10.5% during the year, and the fund's expense ratio was 1.25%, what is your rate of return if you sold the fund at the end of the year? Enter your answer rounded to two decimal places. Do not enter % in the answer box. For example, if your answer is 0.12345 or 12.345% then enter as 12.35 in the answer box.