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A silver mining company has used futures markets to hedge the price it will receive for everything it will produce over the next 5 years. Which of the following is true?

The price of a European put expiring in nine months with a strike price of $135 is $3. The underlying stock price is $142. A dividend of $0.50 is expected in two months and again in five months. The term structure of risk-free interest rates is: 2%, 2.05%, 2.08%, for two-, five-, and nine-month maturities, respectively. Which of the strategies below is an arbitrage if the corresponding call price is $4?

The price of a stock is $21. Consider put and call options (European style) on this stock with the same maturity of six months. The put option has a strike of $15 and is quoted at $1.50 per share. The call option has a strike of $25 and is quoted at $2 per share. An investor uses the following strategy: short 200 shares, long 2 call options (each on 100 shares) and short 2 put options (each on 100 shares).   For which of the ranges below of the stock price at maturity will the investor incur a loss?

A short four-month forward contract was negotiated three months ago with a delivery price of $40. Its current price is $42. The term-structure of risk-free interest rates (with continuous compounding) is flat at  3%. What is the current value of the short forward contract?  

Answer the word problem, make sure to answer both parts of the question   A printing press can print books for a fixed weekly cost of 1758 dollars and a variable cost of 3.5 dollars per book.   A.  Write an equation in slope intercept form modeling the cost of printing x books.   B.  How many books can be printed for a total cost of 6077 dollars.  

A silver mining company has used futures markets to hedge the price it will receive for everything it will produce over the next 5 years. Which of the following is true?

The price of a stock is $21. Consider put and call options (European style) on this stock with the same maturity of six months. The put option has a strike of $15 and is quoted at $1.50 per share. The call option has a strike of $25 and is quoted at $2 per share. An investor uses the following strategy: short 200 shares, long 2 call options (each on 100 shares) and short 2 put options (each on 100 shares).   For which of the ranges below of the stock price at maturity will the investor incur a loss?

A blood culture yielded an organism with the following reactions: TSIA: K/A, gas (+), H2S (+) Citrate: Positive Indole: Negative Lysine: Positive Ornithine: Positive Motility: Positive Phenylalanine: Negative ONPG: Negative Urease: Negative What is the most likely identification of this organism?

If a TSI agar slant shows a neutral or slightly alkaline slant, acid butt, no/gas production, and no H2S production, the organism might be:

The image below shows an onion root tip cell in [name the phase of mitosis] __________________.