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  • Question
  • Assume that money can be invested at 8% compounded quarterly,which is larger,$2500 now or $3800 in 5 years?


  • Options
  • A. 1557.29
  • B. 2557.29
  • C. 2567
  • D. 2457

  • Correct Answer
  • 2557.29 

    Explanation

    First find the present value of $3800,then compare present values:

     

    M  = p(1+i/4)^4n


  • Compound Interest problems


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    • 1. Calculate the future value of $3,000 invested at 7% for 5 years

    • Options
    • A. 4207.66
    • B. 5207
    • C. 4376
    • D. 5687
    • Discuss
    • 2. If you deposit $5000 into an account paying 6% annual interest compounded monthly, how long until there is $8000 in the account?

    • Options
    • A. 6.9
    • B. 7.9
    • C. 8.9
    • D. 9.9
    • Discuss
    • 3. The difference between the compound interest and the simple interest on a certain sum at 12% p.a. for two years is Rs.90. What will be the value of the amount at the end of 3 years?

    • Options
    • A. 8560
    • B. 8673
    • C. 8746
    • D. 8780.80
    • Discuss
    • 4. If the simple interest on a sum of money at 5% per annum for 3 years is Rs. 1200, find the compound interest on the same sum for the same period at the same rate.

    • Options
    • A. Rs.1251
    • B. Rs.1261
    • C. Rs.1271
    • D. Rs,1281
    • Discuss
    • 5. Albert invested an amount of Rs.8000 in a fixed deposit scheme for 2 years at compound interest rate 5 p.c.p.a. How much amount will Albert get on maturity of the fixed deposit ?

    • Options
    • A. Rs.8600
    • B. Rs.8830
    • C. Rs.8500
    • D. Rs.8820
    • Discuss
    • 6. Two payments of $10,000 each must be made one year and four years from now. If money can earn 9% compounded monthly, what single payment two years from now would be equivalent to the two scheduled payments?

    • Options
    • A. 19296
    • B. 19396
    • C. 19496
    • D. 19596
    • Discuss
    • 7. A chartered bank offers a five-year Escalator Guaranteed Investment Certificate.In successive years it pays annual interest rates of 4%, 4.5%, 5%, 5.5%, and 6%, respectively, compounded at the end of each year. The bank also offers regular five-year GICs paying a fixed rate of 5% compounded annually. Calculate and compare the maturity values of $1000 invested in each type of GIC. (Note that 5% is the average of the five successive one-year rates paid on the Escalator GIC.)

    • Options
    • A. 1276.28
    • B. 1234
    • C. 1278
    • D. 1256
    • Discuss
    • 8. If the rate of inflation for the next 20 years is 2.5% per year, what annual income will be needed 20 years from now to have the same purchasing power as a $30,000 annual income today?

    • Options
    • A. 39158
    • B. 49158
    • C. 59158
    • D. 69158
    • Discuss
    • 9. Payments of $2000 and $1000 were originally scheduled to be paid one year and five years, respectively, from today. They are to be replaced by a $1500 payment due four years from today, and another payment due two years from today. The replacement stream must be economically equivalent to the scheduled stream. What is the unknown payment, if money can earn 7% compounded semiannually?

    • Options
    • A. 1548
    • B. 1348
    • C. 1648
    • D. 1748
    • Discuss
    • 10. The compound interest on a certain sum for 2 years at 10% per annum is Rs. 1155. The simple interest on the same sum for double the time at half the rate percent per annum is ?

    • Options
    • A. Rs. 1100
    • B. Rs. 5500
    • C. Rs. 1400
    • D. Rs. 4120
    • Discuss


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