1. What annual interest rate would you need to earn if you wanted a $200 per month contribution to grow to $14,700 in five years ?
2. The Good Life Insurance Co. wants to sell you an annuity which will pay you $500 per quarter for 25 years. You want to earn a minimum annual rate of return of 5.5 percent. What is the most you are willing to pay as a lump sum today to buy this annuity?
3. Your great-aunt left you an inheritance in the form of a trust. The trust agreement states that you are to receive $2,500 on the first day of each year, starting immediately and continuing for fifty years. What is the value of this inheritance today if the applicable discount rate is 6.35 percent?