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Suppose that Fenner Smith of Workouts Problem 13.2 must divide his portfolio between two assets, one of which gives him an expected rate of return of 15% with zero standard deviation and one of which gives him an expected rate of return of 30% and has a standard deviation of 5%. He can alter the expected rate of return and the variance of his portfolio by changing the proportions in which he holds the two assets. If we draw a "budget line" with expected return on the vertical axis and standard deviation on the horizontal axis, depicting the combinations that Smith can obtain, the slope of this budget line is

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