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If the required return is 6 percent, what is the value of the investment? (Do no

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Question

If the required return is 6 percent, what is the value of the investment? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

What would the value be if the payments occurred for 40 years? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)


What would the value be if the payments occurred for 75 years? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

  

  

What would the value be if the payments occurred forever? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

  

An investment offers $5,900 per year for 15 years, with the first payment occurring one year from now.   

If the required return is 6 percent, what is the value of the investment? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

Explanation / Answer

1)

Compute the present value when the payment is $5,900, 15 years and 0.06 interest rate.

Using the excel function.

Present Value = PV(rate, Nper, Pmt, FV) = =PV(0.06,15,-5900,0) = $57,302.

Therefore, the present value is $57,302.

2)

Compute the present value when the payment is $5,900, 40 years and 0.06 interest rate.

Using the excel function.

Present Value = PV(rate, Nper, Pmt, FV) = =PV(0.06,40,-5900,0) = $88,773.

Therefore, the present value is $88,773.

3)

Compute the present value when the payment is $5,900, 75 years and 0.06 interest rate.

Using the excel function.

Present Value = PV(rate, Nper, Pmt, FV) = =PV(0.06,75,-5900,0) = $97,090.

Therefore, the present value is $97,090.

4)

Compute the present value if payments occur forever.

Payment = $5,900.

Interest rate is 0.06

Present value of perpetuity = Payment / Interest = $5,900/0.06 = $98,333.