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Question 51

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Your father's employer was just acquired, and he was given a severance payment of $375,000, which he invested at a 7.5% annual rate. He now plans to retire, and he wants to withdraw $35,000 at the end of each year, starting at the end of this year. How many years will it take to exhaust his funds, i.e., run the account down to zero?

A) 22.50
B) 23.63
C) 24.81
D) 26.05
E) 27.35

F) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

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Question 52

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Which of the following statements regarding a 30-year monthly payment amortized mortgage with a nominal interest rate of 10% is CORRECT?

A) The monthly payments will increase over time.
B) A larger proportion of the first monthly payment will be interest, and a smaller proportion will be principal, than for the last monthly payment.
C) The total dollar amount of interest being paid off each month gets larger as the loan approaches maturity.
D) The amount representing interest in the first payment would be higher if the nominal interest rate were 7% rather than 10%.
E) Exactly 10% of the first monthly payment represents interest.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

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Question 53

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Suppose Community Bank offers to lend you $10,000 for one year at a nominal annual rate of 8.00%, but you must make interest payments at the end of each quarter and then pay off the $10,000 principal amount at the end of the year. What is the effective annual rate on the loan?

A U) S. Treasury bond will pay a lump sum of $1,000 exactly 3 years from today. The nominal interest rate is 6%, semiannual compounding. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

How much would $1, growing at 3.5% per year, be worth after 75 years?

Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

A U) S. Treasury bond will pay a lump sum of $1,000 exactly 3 years from today. The nominal interest rate is 6%, semiannual compounding. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

Suppose the U.S. Treasury offers to sell you a bond for $3,000. No payments will be made until the bond matures 10 years from now, at which time it will be redeemed for $5,000. What interest rate would you earn if you bought this bond at the offer price?

Assume that you own an annuity that will pay you $15,000 per year for 12 years, with the first payment being made today. You need money today to start a new business, and your uncle offers to give you $120,000 for the annuity. If you sell it, what rate of return would your uncle earn on his investment?

Your bank offers to lend you $100,000 at an 8.5% annual interest rate to start your new business. The terms require you to amortize the loan with 10 equal end-of-year payments. How much interest would you be paying in Year 2?

The present value of a future sum decreases as either the discount rate or the number of periods per year increases, other things held constant.

As a result of compounding, the effective annual rate on a bank deposit (or a loan) is always equal to or greater than the nominal rate on the deposit (or loan).

If a bank compounds savings accounts quarterly, the effective annual rate will exceed the nominal rate.

On January 1, 2010, your brother's business obtained a 30-year amortized mortgage loan for $250,000 at a nominal annual rate of 7.0%, with 360 end-of-month payments. The firm can deduct the interest paid for tax purposes. What will the interest tax deduction be for 2010?

Time lines can be constructed for annuities where the payments occur at either the beginning or the end of the periods.

Suppose you borrowed $14,000 at a rate of 10.0% and must repay it in 5 equal installments at the end of each of the next 5 years. How much interest would you have to pay in the first year?

You plan to invest some money in a bank account. Which of the following banks provides you with the highest effective rate of interest?

Last year Thomson Inc's earnings per share were $3.50, and its growth rate during the prior 5 years was 9.0% per year. If that growth rate were maintained, how many years would it take for Thomson's EPS to triple?

What's the present value of a perpetuity that pays $250 per year if the appropriate interest rate is 5%?

Suppose Randy Jones plans to invest $1,000. He can earn an effective annual rate of 5% on Security A, while Security B has an effective annual rate of 12%. After 11 years, the compounded value of Security B should be somewhat less than twice the compounded value of Security A. (Ignore risk, and assume that compounding occurs annually.)