Narrative 11-2 Solve the Following Problems Using Either Tables 11-1 or 11-2

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Narrative 11-2
Solve the following problems using either Tables 11-1 or 11-2 from your text. When necessary, create new table factors. (Round new table factors to five decimal places, round dollars to the nearest cent and percents to the nearest hundredth of a percent)
-Refer to Narrative in your text 11-2. You wish to have $35,000 in 20 years. How much should you invest now at 8% compounded semiannually in order to have $35,000, in 20 years?

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Definitions:

Self-Serving Bias

A cognitive bias that involves taking personal credit for success while blaming external factors for failures.

Bystander Effect

A social psychological phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present.

Actor-Observer Effect

The tendency to attribute one's own actions to external factors, while attributing others' actions to their personality.

Primacy Effect

The psychological phenomenon whereby the first items presented in a list are remembered more easily than those in the middle.