Explain in each of the following situations how market forces might give a business an incentive to act in a less discriminatory fashion. A local flower delivery business run by a bigoted White owner notices that many of its local customers are Black. An assembly line has traditionally only hired men, but it is having a hard time hiring sufficiently qualified workers. A biased owner of a firm that provides home health care services would like to pay lower wages to Hispanic workers than to other employees.

Stock a has a beta of 1.2 and a standard deviation of 20%. stock b has a beta of 0.8 and a standard deviation of 25%. portfolio p has $200,000 consisting of $100,000 invested in stock a and $100,000 in stock b. which of the following statements is correct? (assume that the stocks are in equilibrium.) (a) stock b has a higher required rate of return than stock a. (b) portfolio p has a standard deviation of 22.5%. (c) portfolio p has a beta equal to 1.0. (d) more information is needed to determine the portfolio's beta. (e) stock a's returns are less highly correlated with the returns on most other stocks than are b's returns.