Your Inheritance Will Pay You $100,000 a Year for Five

question 61

Multiple Choice

Your inheritance will pay you $100,000 a year for five years beginning now. You can invest it in a CD that will pay 7.75 percent annually. What is the present value of your inheritance? (Round to the nearest dollar.)

• A) $399,356
• B) $401,916
• C) $433,064
• D) $467,812

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample data, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, expressed with a certain level of confidence.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of all members of a population from its mean value.

Interval Estimate

A range of values used to estimate a population parameter, typically expressed through confidence intervals.

Population Mean

The average value of a population's characteristic, calculated by summing all values and dividing by the population size.