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An analyst uses a Monte Carlo simulation with M = 10,000 paths to price an option, obtaining a standard error of $0.40.

To reduce the standard error to $0.05 using only a larger sample size, how many total paths are required?

  1. 80,000 paths
  2. 1,000,000 paths
  3. 640,000 paths
  4. 100,000 paths

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