1. Sasha owns two investments, A and B, that have a combined total value of 42,000 dollars. Investment A is expected to pay 25,700 dollars in 7 year(s) from today and has an expected return of 4.23 percent per year. Investment B is expected to pay 29,947 in 2 years from today and has an expected return of R per year. What is R, the expected annual return for investment B? Answer as a rate in decimal format so that 12.34% would be entered as .1234 and 0.98% would be entered as .0098.
2. Sasha owns two investments, A and B, that have a combined total value of 54,500 dollars. Investment A is expected to pay 20,400 dollars in 3 year(s) from today and has an expected return of 5.55 percent per year. Investment B is expected to pay 58,772 dollars in T years from today and has an expected return of 6.54 percent per year. What is T, the number of years from today that investment B is expected to pay 58,772 dollars? Round your answer to 2 decimal places (for example, 2.89, 14.70, or 6.00).