GED Corporation, located in the United States, has an accounts payable obligation of 800 million payable in one year to a bank in Tokyo. The current spot rate is 115/$1.00 and the one year forward rate is 110/$1.00. The annual interest rate is 3 percent in Japan and 6 percent in the United States. GED can also buy a one-year call option on yen at the strike price of $0.0080 per yen for a premium of 0.010 cent per yen.

The maximum future dollar cost of meeting this obligation using the call option hedging is

		$6,484,800.
		$6,545,400.
		$6,400,000.
		$6,880,734