Assume that the standard deviation of daily returns for Marcus, Inc. stock in a recent period is 1.5 percent. Furthermore, a 95 percent confidence interval is desired for the maximum loss. Daily returns are normally distributed, and the expected daily return is 0.05 percent.

What is the lower boundary of the maximum expected loss?

a. -2.43 percent

b. -1.98 percent

c. -6.75 percent

d. None of these choices are correct.