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What is the value today of $3,600 received at the end of each year for seven years if the first payment is paid at the end of year 3 and the discount rate is 12 percent?


A) $11,694.21
B) $12,484.57
C) $13,097.52
D) $15,089.23
E) $16,429.52

F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

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Appalachian Bank offers you a $135,000,nine-year term loan at 7.5 percent annual interest.What will your annual loan payment be?


A) $18,507.16
B) $19,229.08
C) $20,660.02
D) $20,889.20
E) $21,163.57

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

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Standards Life Insurance offers a perpetuity that pays annual payments of $100,000.This contract sells for $2,750,000 today.What is the interest rate?


A) 3.64 percent
B) 3.87 percent
C) 4.10 percent
D) 4.21 percent
E) 4.39 percent

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

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Which one of the following is an example of a perpetuity?


A) Trust income of $1,200 a year forever
B) Retirement pay of $2,200 a month for 20 years
C) Lottery winnings of $1,000 a month for life
D) Car payment of $260 a month for 60 months
E) Apartment rent payment of $800 a month for one year

F) All of the above
G) B) and D)

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Which one of the following is an ordinary annuity,but not a perpetuity?


A) $75 paid at the beginning of each monthly period for 50 years
B) $15 paid at the end of each monthly period for an infinite period of time
C) $40 paid quarterly for 5 years, starting today
D) $50 paid every year for ten years, starting today
E) $25 paid weekly for 1 year, starting one week from today

F) All of the above
G) A) and E)

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Katie's Dinor spent $84,000 to refurbish its current facility.The firm borrowed 80 percent of the refurbishment cost at 9.2 percent interest for five years.What is the amount of each monthly payment?


A) $1,108.91
B) $1,282.16
C) $1,333.33
D) $1,401.49
E) $1,487.06

F) All of the above
G) A) and D)

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Which one of the following is the annuity present value formula?


A) C × {{1 - [1/(1 + r) t]}/r}
B) C × {1 - [1/(1 + r) t]} - r
C) C × {1 - [r/(1 + r) t]}/r
D) C × {{1 - [1/(1 × r) t]} × r}
E) C × {1 - [r/(1 × r) t]} × r

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

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You recently sold an antique car you owned and valued greatly.However,you needed money and agreed to sell the car at a price of $58,000,to be paid in monthly payments of $1,500 each for 48 months.What interest rate did you charge for financing the sale?


A) 10.33 percent
B) 10.44 percent
C) 10.60 percent
D) 11.03 percent
E) 11.33 percent

F) A) and C)
G) None of the above

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D

Amish Bakery needs $210,000 today to fund a new project.The project will not produce any cash flows for two years and thus the firm agreed to a two-year,pure discount loan at 7.5 percent interest.How much will the firm owe on this loan at the time it must be repaid?


A) $228,060.00
B) $237,540.21
C) $240,860.00
D) $241,159.39
E) $242,681.25

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

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E

What is the future value of $20 a week for 10 years at 6 percent interest? Assume the first payment occurs at the end of this week.


A) $14,239.14
B) $14,361.08
C) $14,727.15
D) $15,003.14
E) $15,221.80

F) None of the above
G) D) and E)

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Jesse just won the state lottery.He has been given the option of receiving either $62.9 million today or $5 million a year for the next 35 years,with the first payment paid today.Describe the process that Jesse should use to determine which payment option he prefers.Ignore all taxes and assume that Jesse will live for at least 40 more years.

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Which one of the following features distinguishes an ordinary annuity from an annuity due?


A) Number of equal payments
B) Amount of each payment
C) Frequency of the payments
D) Annuity interest rate
E) Timing of the annuity payments

F) C) and D)
G) None of the above

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Which one of the following has the highest effective annual rate?


A) 6 percent compounded annually
B) 6 percent compounded semiannually
C) 6 percent compounded quarterly
D) 6 percent compounded monthly
E) All the other answers have the same effective annual rate.

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

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D

Hometown Builders is borrowing $150,000 today for five years.The loan is an interest-only loan with an APR of 8.5 percent.Payments are to be made annually.What is the amount of the first annual payment?


A) $12,750.00
B) $20,610.90.00
C) $30,029.18
D) $36,461.10
E) $41,300.00

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

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What is the effective annual rate of 10 percent compounded semiannually?


A) 10.21 percent
B) 10.25 percent
C) 10.35 percent
D) 10.38 percent
E) 10.42 percent

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

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Which of the following characteristics apply to a perpetuity? I.Constant cash flow dollar amount II.Unequal cash flow dollar amount III.Limited time period IV.Infinite time period


A) I and III only
B) I and IV only
C) II and III only
D) II and IV only
E) I plus either III or IV

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

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Chandler Tire Co.is trying to decide which one of two projects it should accept.Both projects have the same start-up costs.Project 1 will produce annual cash flows of $52,000 a year for six years.Project 2 will produce cash flows of $48,000 a year for eight years.The company requires a 15 percent rate of return.Which project should the company select and why?


A) Project 1, because the annual cash flows are greater than those of Project 2
B) Project 1, because the present value of its cash inflows exceeds those of Project 2 by $14,211.62
C) Project 2, because the total cash inflows are $70,000 greater than those of Project 1
D) Project 2, because the present value of the cash inflows exceeds those of Project 1 by $18,598.33
E) It does not matter as both projects have almost identical present values.

F) None of the above
G) A) and C)

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What does it mean when a loan is amortized? Explain how amortization methods can vary from one loan to another.

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Which one of the following statements is true concerning annuities?


A) All else equal, an ordinary annuity is more valuable than an annuity due.
B) All else equal, a decrease in the number of payments increases the future value of an annuity due.
C) An annuity with payments at the beginning of each period is called an ordinary annuity.
D) All else equal, an increase in the discount rate decreases the present value and increases the future value of an annuity.
E) All else equal, an increase in the number of annuity payments decreases the present value and increases the future value of an annuity.

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

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Compass Bank is offering 0.8 percent compounded daily on its savings accounts.If you deposit $2,500 today,how much will you have in the account in 15 years?


A) $2,567.15
B) $2,675.10
C) $2,761.32
D) $2,818.74
E) $2,890.62

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

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