The price of a stock is $21. Consider put and call options (European style) on this stock with the same maturity of six months. The put option has a strike of $15 and is quoted at $1.50 per share. The call option has a strike of $25 and is quoted at $2 per share. An investor uses the following strategy: short 200 shares, long 2 call options (each on 100 shares) and short 2 put options (each on 100 shares).   For which of the ranges below of the stock price at maturity will the investor incur a loss?

A short four-month forward contract was negotiated three months ago with a delivery price of $40. Its current price is $42. The term-structure of risk-free interest rates (with continuous compounding) is flat at  3%. What is the current value of the short forward contract?  

Answer the word problem, make sure to answer both parts of the question   A printing press can print books for a fixed weekly cost of 1758 dollars and a variable cost of 3.5 dollars per book.   A.  Write an equation in slope intercept form modeling the cost of printing x books.   B.  How many books can be printed for a total cost of 6077 dollars.  

A silver mining company has used futures markets to hedge the price it will receive for everything it will produce over the next 5 years. Which of the following is true?

The price of a stock is $21. Consider put and call options (European style) on this stock with the same maturity of six months. The put option has a strike of $15 and is quoted at $1.50 per share. The call option has a strike of $25 and is quoted at $2 per share. An investor uses the following strategy: short 200 shares, long 2 call options (each on 100 shares) and short 2 put options (each on 100 shares).   For which of the ranges below of the stock price at maturity will the investor incur a loss?

A blood culture yielded an organism with the following reactions: TSIA: K/A, gas (+), H2S (+) Citrate: Positive Indole: Negative Lysine: Positive Ornithine: Positive Motility: Positive Phenylalanine: Negative ONPG: Negative Urease: Negative What is the most likely identification of this organism?

If a TSI agar slant shows a neutral or slightly alkaline slant, acid butt, no/gas production, and no H2S production, the organism might be:

The image below shows an onion root tip cell in [name the phase of mitosis] __________________.  

Briefly compare the 3 strategies (ways) by which vertebrates dispose of nitrogenous waste. Please answer the following for each: 1) Name of the strategy 2) Molecule being excreted 3) Weight of the molecule relative to the others (least, intermediate, most) 4) Energy expenditure to produce the molecule relative to the others (least, intermediate, most) 5) Degree of toxicity of the molecule being produced relative to the others (least, intermediate, most) 6) Water conservation relative to the others if the animal was terrestrial (least, intermediate, most)

The amount by which a constraint coefficient will have to improve such that a decision variable with value of 0 in the optimal solution enters at a positive level.