Bond X is a premium bond making annual payments. The bond pays an 8 percent coup

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Bond X is a premium bond making annual payments. The bond pays an 8 percent coupon, has a YTM of 6 percent, and has 13 years to maturity. Bond Y is a discount bond making annual payments. This bond pays a 6 percent coupon, has a YTM of 8 percent, and also has 13 years to maturity. Assume the interest rates remain unchanged. What do you expect the prices of these bonds to be in 13 years? (Do not include the dollar signs ($). Enter rounded answers as directed, but do not use the rounded numbers in intermediate calculations.)

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Bond value
$50  [(1  1/1.06 40 )/.06]  1,000/1.06 40
$50  15.04630  1,000/10.2857
$849.54

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