A Bank with $200 Million in Transaction Deposits Keeps $20

question 493

Multiple Choice

A bank with $200 million in transaction deposits keeps $20 million in cash in the bank vault, $10 million in deposits at the Fed, and $5 million in government securities in the bank vault. Its total reserves equal

• A)$10 million.
• B)$20 million.
• C)$30 million.
• D)$35 million.

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Definitions:

Percentile

A measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls.

Normal Random Variable

A variable whose values are distributed according to a normal distribution.

Mean

A measure of central tendency that is calculated by summing the values in a dataset and dividing by the number of values.

Normal Curve

A bell-shaped curve that depicts the distribution of data points in a way where most of the observations cluster around the mean, showing the properties of symmetry and asymptotic tails.