You are thinking about buying a call option with a strike price of $50 which expires in 2 years (t=2). The underlying asset is currently valued at $50 and is expected to follow a binomial process as shown in the figure below with equal probability at each branching of the tree.  

The annual discount rate is 11%. 

What is the payoff to the call option in t=2 if the underlying asset is $100 in year 2?

 

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t=0 $50 t=1 70 35 t=2 100 50 25 t=0 $50 t=1 70 35 t=2 100 50 25

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