Good afternoon,

I just need a quick rundown of how to answer the two questions below the proposed problem. I'm also curious to how the interest rate comes into play while solving. Thank you.

ABC Corp. mines copper, with xed costs of $0.60/lb and variable cost of $0.30/lb. The 1-year forward price of copper is $1.10/lb. The 1-year effective annual interest rate is 6.2%. One-year option prices for copper are shown in the table below.

Strike Call Put 0.9500 $0.0649 $0.0178 0.9750 0.0500 0.0265 1.0000 0.0376 0.0376 1.0250 0.0274 0.0509 1.0340 0.0243 0.0563 1.0500 0.0194 0.0665

In your answers, consider copper prices in 1 year of $0.70, $0.80, $0.90, $1.00, $1.10, and $1.20.

1. If ABC Corp. does nothing to manage copper price risk, what is its prot one year from now, per pound of copper? If on the other hand, ABC Corp. sells forward its expected copper production, what is its estimated prot one year from now? Construct a table for the two scenarios.
2. Assume the 1-year copper forward price were $0.90 instead of $1.10. If ABC Corp. were to sell forward its expected copper production, what is its estimated prot one year from now? What if the forward copper price is $0.60? Should ABC Corp. produce copper? Construct tables for the scenarios.