Use the Present Value and Future Value Tables Included in Appendix

question 98

Multiple Choice

Use the present value and future value tables included in Appendix 8 and on the textbook companion website.
- Arsenio plans to invest $10,000 at the end of each of the next ten years. Assume that Arsenio will earn interest at an annual rate of 6 percent compounded annually. The investment at the end of ten years would be (rounded)

• A) $137,390
• B) $131,808
• C) $106,000
• D) $100,000

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