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Electronic Gaming Incorporated (EGI) is a firm with no debt and its 20 million shares are currently trading for $16 per share.Based on the prospects for EGI's new handheld video game,management feels the true value of the firm is $20 per share.Management believes that the share price will reflect this higher value after the video game is released next fall.EGI has already announced plans to raise $100 million from investors to build a new factory.
-Assume that EGI decides to raise the $100 million through the issuance of new shares prior to the release of the new video game.The number of new shares that EGI will issue is closest to:

• A)5.0 million.
• B)6.25 million.
• C)10 million.
• D)1.6 million.

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Definitions:

Laspeyres Index

A price index used to measure the change in the cost of acquiring a fixed basket of goods and services of the same type and quantity over time.

Paasche Index

A price index that measures the cost of purchasing a given market basket of goods and services in a certain year, compared to the cost of purchasing the same goods and services in a base year, with the quantities used in weighting the prices coming from the year of interest rather than the base year.

Ideal Cost-Of-Living Index

A theoretical measure that tracks the changes in the amount required to maintain a constant standard of living over a period.

Ideal Cost-Of-Living Index

A theoretical measure representing the change in the amount of money needed to maintain a certain standard of living.