The Federal Reserve wants to increase the money supply by increasing the lending potential of commercial banks by $300 billion. It plans to use open-market operations to accomplish this goal. The current reserve requirement for commercial banks is 25 percent. Instructions: Enter your answer as a whole number. a. Will the Fed want to buy or sell government securities if sales or purchases of government securities are the only instrument used in the open-market operations? The Fed will want to buy a total of $ billion in government securities. b. What other option could the Fed pursue-rather than permanently transferring the ownership of securities-to achieve its goal? The Fed could use some amount of repos to effectively | lend money to V commercial banks