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The stock of Business Adventures sells for $80 a share. Its likely dividend payout and end-of-year price depend on the state of the economy by the end of the year as follows: Stock Price Dividend Recession $76 $0.75 Normal economy 82 2.50 Boom 87 3.00 Calculate the expected holding-period return and standard deviation of the holding-period return. All three scenarios are equally likely.