You Have a Contract with Someone Who Has Agreed to Pay

question 22

Multiple Choice

You have a contract with someone who has agreed to pay you $20,000 in four years.She offers to pay you now instead.For which of the following interest rates and payments would you take the money today?.

• A)8 percent,$15,000
• B)7 percent,$16,000
• C)6 percent,$17,000
• D)All of the above are correct.

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Definitions:

Representativeness Heuristic

A thinking strategy based on how closely a new object or situation is judged to resemble or match an existing prototype of that object or situation.

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Additive Strategy

A decision-making approach in which each alternative is rated on each of the important factors affecting the decision and the alternative with the highest overall rating is chosen.

Analogy Heuristic

A rule of thumb that applies a solution that solved a problem in the past to a current problem that shares many features with the past problem.