Given a Canadian Government Bond reference rate of 1.2%, and an expected return of the market of 5.7%:

i. What is the required return of an asset with b = 2.5?

ii. What is the reward to risk ratio?

iii. What is the expected return on a portfolio consisting of 35% of the asset in i) and the remainder in an asset with an average amount of systematic risk (i.e. market risk)?

You can use excel to solve this. Please explain work.