A Certain Wine Costs $3 a Bottle to Produce

question 8

Multiple Choice

A certain wine costs $3 a bottle to produce.It improves in taste if stored properly for a period of time.When it is newly bottled, people are willing to pay only $2 a bottle to drink it.But the amount that people are willing to pay to drink a bottle of this wine will rise by $3 a year for the next 50 years.Storage costs, not including interest, are $.50 per year.If the interest rate is 5% and the wine is kept by rational investors, how old will it be when it is drunk and what will be its price at that time?

• A)50 years old and $152
• B)16 years old and $50
• C)50 years old and $153
• D)20 years old and $63
• E)4 years old and $14

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