The Emerging Growth and Equity Fund is a low-load fund. The current offer price quotation for this mutual fund is $16.28, and the front-end load is 1.7 percent.

a. What is the NAV? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Net Asset Value = $16

b. If there are 27.6 million shares outstanding, what is the current market value of assets owned by the fund? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)

Market value of assets= ?