Tarbox Tobacco Inc is an all equity company with 100M shares outstanding. Tarbox's stock last closed at $15. Tarbox has too much cash. The CEO, Walt Raleigh, wants to distribute the excess cash with an open market stock repurchase

He is contemplating buying back $225M worth of shares at a price of $15. Leaf Erickson owns 2 million shares in Tarbox. He purchased his shares before the repurchase for $15. If Leaf does not sell any shares during the repurchase, then what is his proportionate ownership afterwards?
A) 0.020
B) 0.022
C) 0.024
D) 0.026
E) 0.028

C

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