A Bank Has an Average Balance of Transactions Accounts, August

question 72

Multiple Choice

A bank has an average balance of transactions accounts, August 10 to 23, of $824.46 million.The average balance in the cash account is $42.014 million over this period.The bank is carrying forward a deficit of $1.276 million from the last reserve period.The rules require no reserves to be maintained for the first $8.5 million, 3 percent for amounts between $8.5 million and $45.8 million, and 10 percent thereafter. If over the first 12 days of the current reserve maintenance period the average daily reserve held were $37 million, what does the bank need to hold as reserves over the last two days to exactly meet the reserve requirement?

• A)$86.42 million.
• B)$91.46 million.
• C)$79.63 million.
• D)$99.14 million.
• E)$87.11 million.