In Order to Receive $12,000 at the End of Three

question 99

Multiple Choice

In order to receive $12,000 at the end of three years and $10,000 at the end of five years,how much must be invested now if you can earn 14% rate of return? (Ignore income taxes in this problem.)

• A) $8,100.
• B) $12,978.
• C) $13,290.
• D) $32,054.

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Definitions:

Two-tail Test

A statistical test in which the critical area of a distribution is two-sided and tests whether a sample is either greater than or less than a range of values.

Nominal Data

Data that represents categories with labels or names, where the order of the categories is not meaningful.

Z-test

A statistical test used to determine whether two population means are different when the variances are known and the sample size is large.

Chi-square Test

A statistical test used to determine if there is a significant difference between the observed frequencies and the expected frequencies in one or more categories.