Check my wor Eastern Electric currently pays a dividend of about $1.78 per share and sells for $36 a share. a. If investors believe the growth rate of dividends is 3% per year, what rate of return do they expect to earn on the stock? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) Rate of return ed ok b. If investors' required rate of return is 12%, what must be the growth rate they expect of the firm? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) nces Growth rate C. If the sustainable growth rate is 5% and the plowback ratio is 0.4, what must be the rate of return earned by the firm on its new investments? (Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)