Q.9 Use the following information to answer the question(s) below.

Suppose the market consists only of Merck (MRK) and Boeing (BA). Merck stock is trading for $36.70 per share with 2.11 billion shares outstanding while Boeing has 697.5 million shares outstanding and a market capitalization of $38.223 billion. Assume that you hold the market portfolio.

Merck's market capitalization is closest to:

A. $77.4 billion.

B. $115.6 billion.

C. $38.2 billion.

D. $89.4 billion