Answer:
B. giving loans
Explanation:
The reserve requirement system requires commercial banks to maintain a small fraction of their deposits as a reserve. Only a small percentage of the checkable deposits is required to be held in the banks as reserves. The reserves requirement fractions vary with the monetary policy in place.
The percentage of reserve requirement ranges from 3% to 10%. It would hardly get to 20%. The rest other bigger percentage ( over 80%) is available to be used to create loans.
Oligopoly is a market structure with a small number of firms, none of which can keep the others from having significant influence. A monopoly is one firm, a duopoly is two firms and an oligopoly is two or more firms.
Answer:
Each company drills two wells and experiences a profit of $22 million.
Explanation:
If each company acts independently and drills two oil wells each they will have a total of 4 wells each worth (60 million ÷ 4= $15 million.
Each company will have two oil wells which equals (2* 15 million = $30 million)
But each company incurs cost of $4 million per well. That is total cost of $8 million.
Therefore the profit for each company will be $30 million - $8 million= $22 million