Assume That the Required Reserve Ratio Is 5 Percent

question 225

Multiple Choice

Assume that the required reserve ratio is 5 percent. If a commercial bank has $2 million cash in its vault, $1 million in government securities, $3 million on deposit at the Fed, and $60 million in checkable deposits, then its excess
Reserves equal

• A) $0 million.
• B) $2 million.
• C) $5 million.
• D) $6 million.

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Final Processing Department

The last department in a manufacturing process where goods receive their final touches before being declared finished products.

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An accounting method used to assign costs to units of production in continuous or process manufacturing environments.