You have just put a pen of cattle on feed at a feedyard. To…
You have just put a pen of cattle on feed at a feedyard. To manage your risk, you sell half of your pen as a contract on the futures for $180, and then at the end of the feeding period you bought back the contract for $175, and sold the cattle on the cash market for $176. The final net price that you received for the cattle was:
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