A Large Retail Store Offers No Payments, No Interest for Six

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Short Answer

A large retail store offers no payments, no interest for six months on all furniture and appliance purchases exceeding $1,500. If money can earn 3.5%, how much should the store accept as a payment today on furniture costing $1,850?

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Definitions:

Equal

Describes the state of being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value.

Mean

The average of a set of numerical values, calculated by adding them all up and dividing by the number of values.

Equal

Having the same value, quantity, measure, or meaning as another; identical in magnitude or degree.

Population Standard Deviation

Population standard deviation is a measure of the spread or dispersion of a set of data points in a whole population.