Your Subscription to Investing Wisely Weekly Is About to Expire

question 15

Multiple Choice

Your subscription to Investing Wisely Weekly is about to expire.You plan to subscribe to the magazine for the rest of your life,and you can renew it by paying $75 annually,beginning immediately,or you can get a lifetime subscription for $750,also payable immediately.Assuming you can earn 5.5% on your funds and the annual renewal rate will remain constant,how many years must you live to make the lifetime subscription the better buy? Round fractional years up.(Hint: Be sure to remember that you are solving for how many years you must live,not for how many payments must be made.)

• A)10
• B)11
• C)12
• D)13

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Definitions:

Economic Profits

The difference between total revenue and total costs, including both explicit and implicit costs, indicating profitability beyond normal returns.

Long-run

A period of time in which all factors of production and costs are variable, allowing companies to adjust to market changes completely.

Perfectly Competitive

Describes a market structure where many firms offer identical products, there are no barriers to entry or exit, and all firms are price takers, meaning they accept the market price as given.

Perfectly Competitive

A market structure characterized by an infinite number of small firms, homogeneous products, and easy entry and exit, leading to price-taking behavior.