The percentage of a bank's total deposits held in reserves, either as cash in the vault or as deposits at the local Federal Reserve bank, is:

a) the reserve ratio.
b) the reserve requirement.
c) excess reserves.
d) the money ratio.

Ans: a) the reserve ratio.

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