ABC would like to repurchase 50,000 of its ordinary shares. Investor X offered to sell his 20,000 shares at P20 per share. Investor Y offered to sell his 30,000 shares at P21 per share. Lastly, Investor Z offered to sell his 50,000 shares at P22 per share. ABC eventually paid Investors X and Y P21 per share to complete the repurchase. This is a/an * A. Fixed price tender offer B. Dutch auction self-tender repurchase C. Open market operation D. Selective buy-back

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Roundtree Software is going public using an auction IPO. The firm has received the following bids: Price ($) Number of Shares 14.60 140,000 14.40 200,000 14.20 560,000 14.00 1,000,000 13.80 1,280,000 13.60 880,000 420,000 13.40 Roundtree had previously believed it would issue 1,900,000 shares, however, if Roundtree decides to issue an extra 488,000 shares (for a total of 2,388,000 shares), how much total money will it raise? Roundtree will raise a total amount of $ million (Round to one decimal place.)

1. Swenson Markets would like to sell an additional 1,000 shares of stock using a Dutch auction. The bids received are as follows: (Table below should be interpreted as follows: Bidder A is willing to pay $31 for each share, up to 100 shares while bidder B is willing to pay $29 for each share, up to 100 shares) (Hint: Remember that for Dutch auctions, sell shares first to bidder with willing to pay the highest price and then to bidder with second highest price and so on until all shares are sold. However, every bidder will pay the price of the last bidder to receive any shares. In other words, everyone will pay the lowest price of all successful bidders receiving shares regardless of their own price bids.) Bidder Price A B с 500 D 600 E 400 What is the total amount the issuer will receive from this auction? Ignore costs. Quantity 100 100 $31 $29 $28 $27 $26