Calculate the required rate of return for Mercury Inc., assuming that investors expect a 3.2 percent rate of inflation in the future. The real risk-free rate is equal to 3.7 percent and the market risk premium is 5.7 percent. Mercury has a beta of 0.8, and its realized rate of return has averaged 16 percent over the last 5 years.

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