A bank has an average balance of transactions accounts, August 10 to 23, of $824.46 million. The average balance in the cash account is $42.014 million over this period. The bank is carrying forward a deficit of $1.276 million from the last reserve period. The rules require no reserves to be maintained for the first $8.5 million, 3 percent for amounts between $8.5 million and $45.8 million, and 10 percent thereafter. If over the first 12 days of the current reserve maintenance period the average daily reserve held were $37 million, what does the bank need to hold as reserves over the last two days to meet the maximum reserve? $129.110 million. $125.552 million. $141.914 million. $135.690 million. B. $111.453 million.

A bank has an average balance of transactions accounts, August 10 to 23, of $824.46 million. The average balance in the cash account is $42.014 million over this period. The bank is carrying forward a deficit of $1.276 million from the last reserve period. The rules require no reserves to be maintained for the first $8.5 million, 3 percent for amounts between $8.5 million and $45.8 million, and 10 percent thereafter. If over the first 12 days of the current reserve maintenance period the average daily reserve held were $37 million, what does the bank need to hold as reserves over the last two days to meet the maximum reserve? $129.110 million. $125.552 million. $141.914 million. $135.690 million. B. $111.453 million.

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