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George and Jude Sullivan determine how much they need to retire early in about 20 years. Both have promising careers, and both make good money. As a result, they're willing to put aside whatever is necessary to achieve a comfortable lifestyle in retirement. Their current level of household expenditures (excluding savings) is around $75,000 a year, and they expect to spend even more in retirement; they think they'll need about 125 percent of that amount. (Note: 125 percent equals a multiplier factor of 1.25.) They estimate that their Social Security benefits will amount to $20,000 a year in today's dollars and that they'll receive another $35,000 annually from their company pension plans. George and Jude feel that future inflation will amount to about 3 percent a year, and they think they'll be able to earn about 6 percent on their investments before retirement and about 4 percent afterward.

Problem 1: Find out how big their investment nest egg will have to be and how much they'll have to save annually to accumulate the needed amount within the next 20 years.