Cheryl Levin is the chief executive officer of Mountainbrook Trading Company. Theboard of directors has just granted Cheryl 10,000 at-the-money European call options onthe company's stock, which is currently trading at $125 per share. The stock pays nodividends. The options will expire in five years and the standard deviation of the returnson the stock is 56 percent. Treasury bills that mature in five years currently yield acontinuously compounded interest rate of 5 percent. Use the Black-Scholes model tocalculate the value of the stock options. (Do not round intermediate calculations andround your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)Value of option grant

Step 1:Formula to calculate Value of options using black-scholes is as follows: Value of call…

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