Exhibit 15.17 USE THE INFORMATION BELOW FOR THE FOLLOWING PROBLEM The Skalmory Corporation has entered into a three-year interest rate swap, with semiannual settlement, to pay a fixed rate of 7.5 percent per year and receive six-month LIBOR. The notional principal is $10,000,000. Refer to Exhibit 15.17. Assuming that one year after the swap was initiated the fixed rate on a new two-year receive fixed pay floating LIBOR swap has fallen to 7 percent per year, calculate the market value of the 7.5 percent fixed rate bond based on a $100 face value. Settlement is on a semiannual basis.

a. $100.92

b. $101.33

c. $98.67

d. $100.00

e. $95.83