Suppose you bought $48,000 worth of stock A and $80,000 worth of stock B. The standard deviation of returns is 59% for stock A and 27% for stock B. The two stocks' returns have a correlation of 0.2. What is the standard deviation of this portfolio's returns? O a. 15.2% O b. 18.6% O c. 23.6% O d. 26.9% Oe. 30.4%

Suppose you bought $48,000 worth of stock A and $80,000 worth of stock B. The standard deviation of returns is 59% for stock A and 27% for stock B. The two stocks' returns have a correlation of 0.2. What is the standard deviation of this portfolio's returns? O a. 15.2% O b. 18.6% O c. 23.6% O d. 26.9% Oe. 30.4%

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