Consider two assets. Suppose that the return on asset 1 has expected value 0.05 and standard deviation 0.1 and suppose that the return on asset 2 has expected value 0.02 and standard deviation 0.05. Suppose that the asset returns have correlation 0.4. Consider a portfolio placing weight w on asset 1 and weight 1-w on asset 2; let Rp denote the return on the portfolio. Find the mean and variance of Rp as a function of w.

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