A stock closed at a price of $$60$ per share on $3/4/24.$ It had closed at $$80$ per share five years earlier. What can you say about the geometric average annual rate of return over that five year period? $($choose one$)$

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a

It is positive.

b

It is negative.

c

It could be positive or negative $($more information is needed to determine$).$

d

It is higher than the arithmetic average annual return.