Use the following information to answer the remaining questions. Scuppers Boat Works, Inc. issued 200 bonds to finance expansion into a new line of designs. The bonds had a total principal of $200,000. The bonds will pay interest semiannually on June 30 and December 31 at a rate of 9% per annum and mature in five years. On January 1, 200A, the day the bonds were issued, similar securities were yielding a rate of 10% per annum. Scuppers' underwriter, Reedham and Quip, purchased the entire issue to resell them to individual investors. Scuppers retained the right to buy back the bonds from the bondholders in two years at a price of $102. The par value of the bond issue is

Use the following information to answer the remaining questions. Scuppers Boat Works, Inc. issued 200 bonds to finance expansion into a new line of designs. The bonds had a total principal of $200,000. The bonds will pay interest semiannually on June 30 and December 31 at a rate of 9% per annum and mature in five years. On January 1, 200A, the day the bonds were issued, similar securities were yielding a rate of 10% per annum. Scuppers' underwriter, Reedham and Quip, purchased the entire issue to resell them to individual investors. Scuppers retained the right to buy back the bonds from the bondholders in two years at a price of $102.
The par value of the bond issue is



a. $200,000
b. $18,000
c. $20,000
d. $102,000
e. $192,275


Answer: a. $200,000


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