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SIMPLE INTEREST AND COMPOUND INTEREST
1. RKI Instruments borrowed $3,500,000 from a private equity fi rm for expansion of its
manufacturing facility for making carbon monoxide monitors/controllers. The company repaid
the loan after year with a single payment of $3,885,000. What was the interest rate on the loan?
Solution:
𝑖 = [(3,885,000 − 3,500,000)/3,500,000] ∗ 100% = 11% 𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟
2. A new engineering graduate who started a consulting business borrowed money for 1 year to
furnish the office. The amount of the loan was $23,800, and it had an interest rate of 10% per
year. However, because the new graduate had not built up a credit history, the bank made him
buy loan-default insurance that cost 5% of the loan amount. In addition, the bank charged a loan
setup fee of $300. What was the effective interest rate the engineer paid for the loan?
Solution:
3. At an interest rate of 15% per year, an investment of $100,000 one year ago is equivalent to how
much now?
Solution:
4. To make CDs look more attractive than they really are, some banks advertise that their rates are
higher than their competitors’ rates; however, the fine print says that the rate is a simple interest
rate. If a person deposits $10,000 at 10% per year simple interest, what compound interest rate
would yield the same amount of money in 3 years?
Solution:
𝑙𝑜𝑔(1 + 𝑖) = 0.03798
5. If a company sets aside $1,000,000 now into a contingency fund, how much will the company
have in 2 years, if it does not use any of the money and the account grows at a rate of 10% per
year?
Solution:
𝐹1 = 1,000,000 + 1,000,000(0.10) = 1,100,000
𝐹2 = 1,100,000 + 1,100,000(0.10) = $1,210,000
6. Iselt Welding has extra funds to invest for future capital expansion. If the selected investment
pays simple interest, what interest rate would be required for the amount to grow from $60,000
to $90,000 in 5 years?
Solution:
90,000 = 60,000 + 60,000(5)(𝑖)
300,000 𝑖 = 30,000
𝑖 = 0.10 (10% 𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟)
7. To finance a new product line, a company that makes high-temperature ball bearings borrowed
$1.8 million at 10% per year interest. If the company repaid the loan in a lump sum amount after
2 years, what was ( a ) the amount of the payment and ( b ) the amount of interest?
Solution:
(𝑎) 𝐹 = 1,800,000(1 + 0.10) (1 + 0.10) = $2,178,000
8. If interest is compounded at 20% per year, how long will it take for $50,000 to accumulate to
$86,400?
Solution:
86,400 = 50,000(1 + 0.20)𝑛
𝑛 = 3 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠
CONTINUOUS COMPOUNDING
1. What effective interest rate per year is equal to 1.2% per month, compounded continuously?
Solution:
𝑖 = 𝑒 0.144 − 1
2. Companies such as GE that have huge amounts of cash flow every day base their financial
calculations on continuous compounding. If the company wants to make an effective 25% per year,
compounded continuously, what nominal daily rate of return has to be realized? Assume 365 days
per year.
Solution:
5. What nominal rate per month is equivalent to an effective 1.3% per month, compounded
continuously?
Solution:
0.013 = 𝑒 𝑟 – 1
𝑒 𝑟 = 1.013
𝑟 = 𝑙𝑛 1.013
= 0.0129 𝑜𝑟 1.29% 𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ
6. What effective interest rate per quarter is equal to a nominal 1.6% per month, compounded
continuously?
Solution:
𝑟 = (0.016)(3) = 0.048% 𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟
𝑖 = 𝑒 0.048 – 1
= 4.92% 𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟
7. An interest rate of 8% per 6 months, compounded monthly, is equivalent to what effective rate
per quarter?
Solution:
Solution:
= $85.20
= 142(0.8264)
= $117.35
= $32.15
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2. How much can Haydon Rheosystems, Inc., afford to spend now on an energy management
system if the software will save the company $21,300 per year for the next 5 years? Use an
interest rate of 10% per year.
Solution:
𝑃 = 21,300(𝑃/𝐴, 10%, 5)
= 21,300(3.7908)
= $80,744
3. The Moller Skycar M400 is a flying car known as a personal air vehicle (PAV) that is
expected to be FAA-certified by December 31, 2011. The cost is $985,000, and a $100,000
deposit will hold one of the first 100 “cars.” Assume a buyer pays the $885,000 balance 3
years after making the $100,000 deposit. At an interest rate of 10% per year, what is the
effective total cost of the PAV in year 3?
Solution:
𝐹 = 100,000(𝐹/𝑃, 10%, 3) + 885,000
= 100,000(1.3310) + 885,000
= $1,018,100
4. A family that won a $100,000 prize on America’s Funniest Home Videos decided to put one-
half of the money in a college fund for their child who was responsible for the prize. If the
fund earned interest at 6% per year, how much was in the account 14 years after it was
started?
Solution:
𝐹 = 50,000(𝐹/𝑃, 6%, 14)
= 50,000(2.2609)
= $113,045
5. The amount of money that Diamond Systems can spend now for improving productivity in
lieu of spending $30,000 three years from now at an interest rate of 12% per year is?
Solution:
𝑃 = 30,000(𝑃/𝐹, 12%, 3)
= 30,000(0.7118)
= $21,354
6. The cost of lighting and maintaining the tallest smokestack in the United States (at a shuttered
ASARCO refi nery) is $90,000 per year. At an interest rate of 10% per year, the present worth
of maintaining the smokestack for 10 years is
Solution:
8. How much could the company afford to spend now on new equipment in lieu of spending
$200,000 one year from now and $300,000 three years from now, if the company uses an
interest rate of 15% per year?
Solution:
𝑃 = 200,000(𝑃/𝐹, 15%, 1) + 300,000(𝑃/𝐹, 15%3)
= 200,000(0.8696) + 300,000(0.6575)
= $371,170
DEFFERED ANNUITY
1. One of Trident’s customers expects to reduce downtime by 30% as a result of the new seal
design. If lost production would have cost the company $110,000 per year for the next 4 years,
how much could the company afford to spend now on the new seals, if it uses an interest rate
of 12% per year?
Solution:
(1 + 𝑖)𝑛 − 1
𝑃 = 𝐴[ ], (𝑃/𝐴 , 𝑖 , 𝑛 )
𝑖(1 + 𝑖)𝑛
4. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration raised the average fuel efficiency
standard to 35.5 miles per gallon for cars and light trucks by the year 2016. The rules will cost
consumers an average of $434 extra per vehicle in the 2012 model year. If a person purchases
a new car in 2012 and keeps it for 5 years, how much must be saved in fuel costs each year to
justify the extra cost? Use an interest rate of 8% per year.
Solution:
𝐴 = 434(𝐴/𝑃, 8%, 5)
= 434(0.25046)
= $108.70
5. If you invest $200,000 of the company’s money in a natural gas well that is expected to provide
income of $29,000 per year, how long must the well produce at that rate in order to get the
money back plus a rate of return of 10% per year?
Solution:
ANNUITY DUE
2. Henry Mueller Supply Co. sells tamperproof, normally open thermostats (i.e., thermostat closes
nas temperature rises). Annual cash flows are shown in the table below. Determine the future
worth of the net cash flows at an interest rate of 10% per year.
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Solution:
𝐹 = (200 – 90)(𝐹/𝐴, 10%, 8)
= 110(11.4359)
= $1,257,949
3. A company that makes self-clinching fasteners expects to purchase new production-line
equipments in 3 years. If the new units will cost $350,000, how much should the company set
aside each year, if the account earns 10% per year?
Solution:
𝐴 = 350,000(𝐴/𝐹, 10%, 3)
= 350,000(0.30211)
= $105,739
4. An engineer who believed in “save now and play later” wanted to retire in 20 years with $1.5
million. At 10% per year interest, to reach the $1.5 million goal, starting 1 year from now, the
engineer must annually invest how much?
Solution:
𝐴 = 1,500,000(𝐴/𝐹, 10%, 20)
= 1,500,000(0.01746)
= $26,190
5. The number of years required for an account to accumulate $650,000 if Ralph deposits $50,000
each year and the account earns interest at a rate of 6% per year is?
Solution:
(𝐹/𝐴, 𝑖, 3) = 3.6400
𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒇𝒕 − 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓
7. Acme Bricks, a masonry products company, wants to have $600,000 on hand before it invests in
new conveyors, trucks, and other equipment. If the company sets aside $80,000 per year in an
account that increases in value at a rate of 15% per year, how many years will it be before Acme
can purchase the equipment?
Solution:
600,000 = 80,000(𝐹/𝐴, 15%, 𝑛)
(𝐹/𝐴, 15%, 𝑛) = 7.50
𝑛 = 5.4 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠
8. A perceptive engineer started saving for her retirement 15 years ago by diligently saving $18,000
each year through the present time. She invested in a stock fund that averaged a 12% rate of return
over that period. If she makes the same annual investment and gets the same rate of return in the
future, how long will it be from now (time zero) before she has $1,500,000 in her retirement fund?
Solution:
1,500,000 = 18,000(F/A,12%,n)
(F/A,12%,n) = 83.3333
n=6.2 years.
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PERPETUITY
1. A wealthy businessman wants to start a permanent fund for supporting research directed toward
sustainability. The donor plans to give equal amounts of money for each of the next 5 years,
plus one now (i.e., six donations) so that $100,000 per year can be withdrawn each year forever,
beginning in year 6. If the fund earns interest at a rate of 8% per year, how much money must
be donated each time?
Solution:
𝐴𝑊
𝐶𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝐶𝑜𝑠𝑡, 𝐶𝐶 =
𝑖
𝐶𝐶 = (−100,000/0.08)(𝑃/𝐹, 8%, 5)
= −1,250,000(0.6806)
= $ − 850,750