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Suppose a stock fund has an annual expected return of 10%. If you assume annual stock fund returns are normally distributed, approximately how big can its standard deviation be before your annual probability of loss exceeds 16.67%?

(A) 2.50%

(B) 3.33%

(C) 5.00%

(D) 6.67%

(E) 10.00%

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