a) Consider a stock that has a covariance of returns to the market of 0.0182. The standard deviation of the market is 0.158. What is the beta of this stock? Enter your answer rounded to 2 DECIMAL PLACES.

b) The CFO of MediSearch plc believes that investing into a project which will develop a new drug for fighting the flu virus, promises a long-term annual return of 8%. The expected return of the market index is RM = 11%, the volatility of the market index is M = 9.3%, and the risk-free asset earns Rf = 5.6%. The CFO has studied similar projects of other companies and believes that the covariance between the returns of this project and the returns of the market is P,M = 0.0097 (in decimal form).

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