Suppose the Federal Reserve wants to increase the money supply by increasing the lending potential of commercial banks. Assume the current reserve requirement for commercial banks is 20 percent. Now suppose the Fed wants the lending potential to increase by $180 billion, and it plans to use open-market operations to accomplish this goal. Instructions: Enter your answer as a whole number. a. If sales or purchases of government securities are the only instrument used in the open-market operations, the Fed will need to Click to select) o government securities in the total amount of $ billion. Click to select commercial banks rather than b. The Fed may also opt to use some amount of Click to select to effectively permanently transfer ownership of the securities in order to obtain its goal.