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Questions -

Q1. You will receive an inheritance of $500,000 in 20 years on your 40th birthday. What is the value of the inheritance today if the discount rate is 10%10%?

a. 74,321.81

b. 500,000

c. 50,000

d. 3,363,749

Q2. What is the present value (i.e., price) today of a bond that will pay its owner $1,000,000 five years from today if the discount rate is 4% per annum?

a. 40,000

b. 1,000,000

c. 1,216,652.90

d. 821,927.11

Q3. Imagine that you deposit $6,000 a year, starting one year from today, for four years into a savings account paying 6% per annum. How much money will you have immediately after you make your fourth and final deposit?

a. 27,822.56

b. 30,299.44

c. 26,247.70

d. 24,000

Q4. Imagine that your goal is to retire 34 years from today with $1,000,000 in savings. Assuming that you currently (i.e., today) have $5,000 in savings, what rate of return must you earn on that savings to hit your goal?

a. 4.8824

b. 0.1686

c. 0.2000

d. 0.4882

Q5. Assume that a bond makes 30 equal annual payments of $1,000 starting one year from today. (This security is sometimes referred to as an amortizing bond.) If the discount rate is 3.5% per annum, what is the current price of the bond?

a. 356.27

b. 2,856.79

c. 18,329.05

d. 2806.79

Q6. Assume that a bond makes 10 equal annual payments of $1,000 starting one year from today. The bond will make an additional payment of $100,000 at the end of the last year, year 10. (This security is sometimes referred to as a coupon bond.) If the discount rate is 3.5% per annum, what is the current price of the bond?

a. 79,208.485

b. 89,283.93

c. 70,891.88

d. 8,316.605

Q7. Your daughter will start college one year from today, at which time the first tuition payment of $58,000 must be made. Assuming that tuition does not increase over time and that your daughter remains in school for four years, how much money do you need today in your savings account, earning 5% per annum, in order to make the tuition payments over the next four years?

a. 290,000

b. 1,657,142.85

c. 70,499.36

d. 205,665.13

Q8. Imagine that the government decided to fund its current deficit of $431 billion dollars by issuing a perpetuity offering a 4% annual return. How much would the government have to pay bondholders each year in perpetuity?

a. 17.24 Billion Dollars

b. 448.24 Billion Dollars

c. 10.78 Billion Dollars

d. 107.75 Billion Dollars

Q9. A home equity line of credit (HELOC) is, loosely speaking, like a credit card for your home. You can borrow money by drawing down on the line of credit. But, because the borrowed money is for the purpose of your home, the interest is tax-deductible meaning that you can deduct the interest paid on this money from your income to reduce your taxes. If the current annual interest rate on a HELOC is 3.85% and your tax rate is 32%, what is the after-tax interest rate you will pay on any borrowings under the HELOC?

a. 0.026

b. 0.120

c. 0.012

d. 0.308

Q10. Your daughter will start college one year from today, at which time the first tuition payment of $58,000 must be made. Assume that tuition does not increase over time and that your daughter remains in school for four years. How much money do you need today in your savings account, earning 5% per annum, in order to make the tuition payments over the next four years, provided that you have to pay 35% per annum in taxes on any earnings (e.g., interest on the savings)?

a. 205,665.13

b. 115,822.98

c. 214,309.02

d. 1,784,615.38