An investment bank agrees to pay $26.75 for 5 million shares of a company in a firm commitment stock offer­ing. it then can sell those shares to the public for $25.50 per share. what is the profit to the investment bank?

Copan italia is a distributor of laboratory products and manufacturer of laboratory commodities, including transfer pipettes and flexible hematology cups used on a variety of automatic instruments to count blood corpuscle elements. copan's says that the company's business is to continually work to improve the quality of the collection and preservation of the microbiological sample in the "pre-analytical phase," as the demand for better protection of the specimen is growing day by day.