Market portfolio using the capital market line

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A portfolio that combines the risk-free asset and the market portfolio have an expected return of 25% and a standard deviation of 4%. The risk-free rate is 5%, and the expected return on the market portfolio is 20%. Suppose the capital-asset-pricing model holds. What expected rate of return would a security earn if it had 0.5 correlations with the market portfolio and a standard deviation of 2%?

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