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Consider the following information:

		Rate of Return if State Occurs
State of	Probability of
Economy	State of Economy	Stock A	Stock B	Stock C
Boom	.25	.23	.39	.26
Good	.15	.12	.15	.16
Poor	.30	.02	.12	.03
Bust	.30	.18	.18	.11

a.	Your portfolio is invested 35 percent each in A and C, and 30 percent in B. What is the expected return of the portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places. Omit the "%" sign in your response.)

Expected return

%

b-1.	What is the variance of this portfolio? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 5 decimal places.)

Variance of this portfolio

b-2.	What is the standard deviation? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)

Standard deviation

%