Solution

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At a node with time price , choose the stock holding
The two possible values of the stock position differ by exactly the difference between the two continuation claims. Choose the bank holding so that total wealth is . The pricing recursion makes its next value equal to the appropriate continuation value in both states. Backward induction from therefore replicates from initial capital .

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