In: Accounting
| Rate of Return if State Occurs | ||||
| State of Economy | Probability of State of Economy |
Stock A | Stock B | Stock C |
| Boom | 0.70 | 0.25 | 0.19 | 0.09 |
| Bust | 0.30 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.03 |
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a. What is the expected return on an equally weighted portfolio of these three stocks? |
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b. What is the variance of a portfolio invested 30 percent each in A and B and 40 percent in C? |