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question 27

Multiple Choice

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Wildcat Drilling is an oil and gas exploration company that is currently operating two active oil fields with a market value of $200 million each.Unfortunately,Wildcat Drilling has $500 million in debt coming due at the end of the year.A large oil company has offered Wildcat drilling a highly speculative,but potentially very valuable,oil and gas lease in exchange for one of their active oil fields.If Wildcat accepts the trade,there is a 10% chance that Wildcat will discover a major new oil field that would be worth $1.2 billion,a 15% chance that Wildcat will discover a productive oil field that would be worth $600 million,and a 75% chance that Wildcat will not discover oil at all.
-What is the overall expected payoff to Wildcat from the speculative oil lease deal?

• A)$210 million
• B)$275 million
• C)$85 million
• D)$160 million

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