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question 98

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the question(s) below.
Suppose the market consists only of Merck (MRK) and Boeing (BA) .Merck stock is trading for $36.70 per share with 2.11 billion shares outstanding while Boeing has 697.5 million shares outstanding and a market capitalization of $38.223 billion.Assume that you hold the market portfolio.
-Merck's market capitalization is closest to:

• A)$38.2 billion.
• B)$77.4 billion.
• C)$89.4 billion.
• D)$115.6 billion.

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