A Sports Team in an Effort to Solve the Salary

question 22

Multiple Choice

A sports team in an effort to solve the salary cap problem has offered a player a contract of $1 million dollars a year for the next season with the payments growing at 7% per year for the next 25 years. The player believes the discount rate for such payments is 13%. What is the value today of taking this contract?

• A) $12,405,955.40
• B) $16,666,666.67
• C) $884,956.09
• D) $5,824,965.76

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