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C. PROBLEMS: 4x10-40 points Bloome Co.'s stock has a 25% chance of producing a 30% return, a 50% chance of producing a 12% return, and a 25% chance of producing a-18% return, what is the firm's expected rate of return? 2. Stuart Company's manager believes that economic conditions during the next year will be strong normal, or weak, and she thinks that the firm's returns will have the probability distribution shown below. What's the standard deviation of the estimated returns? Economic Strong Normal Weak Prob. 30 40% 30% 32.0% 10.0% -16.0% .a8 3. Dona Id Gilmore has $100,000 invested in a 2-stock portfolio. $35,000 is invested in Stock X and the 4. Martin Ortner holds a $200,000 portfolio consisting of the following stocks: Betaqss $ 50,000 50,000 50,000 0.95 0.80 1.00 1.20 5 Total $200,000 What is the portfolio's beta