Use the Table for the Question(s) Below

question 85

Multiple Choice

Use the table for the question(s) below.
Consider the following information on options from the CBOE for Merck:
-Assume you want to buy one options contract that with an exercise price closest to being at-the-money and that expires January 2009. The current price that you would have to pay for such a contract is ________.

• A) $680
• B) $380
• C) $650
• D) $420

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Definitions:

Rectangular Hyperbola

A curve representing a relationship between two variables wherein the product of the two variables is constant, commonly used in economics to describe certain elasticities.

Price Elasticity

A measure of the responsiveness of the quantity demanded or supplied of a good to a change in its price, indicating how changes in price affect consumption or production.

Slope

In mathematics, the measure of the steepness or angle of a line, defined as the ratio between the rise and the run between two points on the line.

Rectangular Hyperbola

A type of curve, defined as the graph of an equation of the form xy = c, where c is a constant, representing certain economic relationships.