Phil and Emily Brooks Have Three Sons, Jason, 16, Tom

question 87

Essay

Phil and Emily Brooks have three sons, Jason, 16, Tom, 12, and Adam, 10. They create a Colorado 529 plan for each of their sons by investing $10,000 in three different plans. Each of these investments yields a constant return of 6.5 percent. When they turned 18, Jason and Adam withdrew the funds in their 529 plans and used the money for higher education expenses while Tom withdrew the funds in his 529 plan to start a new business. Assuming that each of the sons have a 15 percent marginal tax rate when they turn 18, how much money will each of the three boys have after paying all applicable taxes due? (Round all interim and final calculations to the nearest whole number)

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Definitions:

Population Variances

The measure of how data points in an entire population are spread out.

Population Variances

Measures of the dispersion of a population data set, reflecting how much the members of the population differ from the population mean.

Ratio

A quantitative relationship between two numbers, indicating how many times one value is contained or can contain the other.

Sample Variances

A measure of the variance (spread or variability) within a sample data set.