In the Results of the Earliest Estimations of the Security

In the results of the earliest estimations of the security market line by Miller and Scholes (1972) , it was found that the average difference between a stock's return and the risk-free rate was ________ to its nonsystematic risk and ________ to its beta.

A) positively related; negatively related
B) negatively related; positively related
C) positively related; positively related
D) negatively related; negatively related
E) not related; not related