Solution

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For , the lower-strike payoff dominates:
If , buy the cheaper lower-strike call and sell the higher-strike call. This gives positive initial consumption and a nonnegative terminal payoff, an arbitrage. Hence the monotonicity of a European call price in strike gives .

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