What is the expected rate of return for stock x and stock y

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You have estimated the following probability distributions of expected future returns for Stocks X and Y:

Stock X		Stock Y
Probability	Return	Probability	Return
0.1	-10%	0.2	2%
0.2	10	0.2	7
0.4	15	0.3	12
0.2	20	0.2	15
0.1	40	0.1	16

a. What is the expected rate of return for Stock X? Stock Y?

b. What is the standard deviation of expected returns for Stock X? For Stock Y?

c. Which stock would you consider to be riskier? Why?

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