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Banks use a large percentage of their checkable deposits for the purpose of __________.

A.
paying interest
B.
giving loans
C.
employee salaries
D.
maintaining reserves

the answer is D

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Answer:

D.) maintaining reserves

Step-by-step explanation:

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User Jan Aka Uptech
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Answer:

B. giving loans

Step-by-step explanation:

The reserve requirement system requires commercial banks to maintain a small fraction of their deposits as a reserve. Only a small percentage of the checkable deposits is required to be held in the banks as reserves. The reserves requirement fractions vary with the monetary policy in place.

The percentage of reserve requirement ranges from 3% to 10%. It would hardly get to 20%. The rest other bigger percentage ( over 80%) is available to be used to create loans.

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