Suppose that the Fed undertakes an open market purchase of $1 million worth of securities from a bank. If the required reserve ratio is 9%, what is the resulting change in checkable deposits (or the money supply), assuming that there are no cash leakages and that banks hold zero excess reserves?

A) $11.11 million
B) $9 million
C) $1.09 million
D) $90 million

A

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