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Common Stock (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Common Stock. |
Summary of the cost and number of Class A common stock repurchased |
|  | Year Ended December 31,
|  | 2018 |  | 2017
|  | Number of shares |  | Cost of shares |  | Number of shares |  | Cost of shares
|  | repurchased |  | repurchased |  | repurchased |  | repurchased
|  | (amounts in millions, except share amount)
Stock repurchase programs: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
July 27, 2015 |  | 340,106 |  |  | 26.0 |  | 277,886 |  |  | 18.2
Total |  | 340,106 |  | $ | 26.0 |  | 277,886 |  | $ | 18.2

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