You Just Graduated, and You Plan to Work for 10

question 87

Multiple Choice

You just graduated, and you plan to work for 10 years and then to leave for the Australian "Outback" bush country.You figure you can save $1,000 a year for the first 5 years and $2,000 a year for the next 5 years.These savings cash flows will start one year from now.In addition, your family has just given you a $5,000 graduation gift.If you put the gift now, and your future savings when they start, into an account which pays 8 percent compounded annually, what will your financial "stake" be when you leave for Australia 10 years from now?

• A)
• $21,432
• B)
• $28,393
• C)
• $16,651
• D)
• $31,148
• E)
• $20,000

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Definitions:

Competitive Price-taker Market

A market structure where sellers accept the market price as given, having no control over it due to perfect competition.

Long-run Equilibrium

A state in which all factors of production and costs are variable, allowing firms to enter or exit the market, ultimately resulting in no economic profit for the firms in a perfectly competitive market.

Zero Economic Profit

A situation where a firm's total revenue is exactly equal to its total costs, including opportunity costs.

Constant Cost

A situation where the cost of producing one additional unit of a good or service is the same, regardless of the volume produced.