You have purchased a put option on Kimberly Clark common stock. The option has an exercise price of $95.00 and Kimberly Clark's stock is currently trades at $96.18. The option premium is $1.25 per share. Required:
a. Calculate your net profit on the option if Kimberly Clark's stock price falls to $93.00 and you exercise the option.
b. Calculate your net profit on the option if Kimberly Clark's stock price does not change over the life of the option.

The monthly demand equation for an electric utility company is estimated to be p equals 60 minus left parenthesis 10 superscript negative 5 baseline right parenthesis x, where p is measured in dollars and x is measured in thousands of killowatt-hours. the utility has fixed costs of $3 comma 000 comma 000 per month and variable costs of $32 per 1000 kilowatt-hours of electricity generated, so the cost function is upper c left parenthesis x right parenthesis equals 3 times 10 superscript 6 baseline plus 32 x. (a) find the value of x and the corresponding price for 1000 kilowatt-hours that maximize the utility's profit. (b) suppose that the rising fuel costs increase the utility's variable costs from $32 to $38, so its new cost function is upper c 1 left parenthesis x right parenthesis equals 3 times 10 superscript 6 baseline plus 38 x. should the utility pass all this increase of $6 per thousand kilowatt-hours on to the consumers?