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Suppose you plan to retire in 40 years. If you make 10 annual investments of $ 1,000 into your retirement account for the first 10 years, and no more contributions to the account for the remaining 30 years. If the retirement account earns a fixed 5% annual interest, how much will you have at your retirement? Round it to two decimal places without the $ sign, e.g., 1234567.89.
This question can be broken into two parts:
Part 1: calculate the FV of annuity of first 10 contributions at the end of year 10:
We are given the following information:
PMT | 1000 |
r | 5.00% |
n | 10 |
T | 1 |
We need to solve the following equation to arrive at the
required FV
So the FV at the end of year 10 is $12577.8925355488
Part 2: now this amount is compounded for 30 years without any further contributions:
We are given the following information
PV | $ 12,577.89 |
r | 5.00% |
n | 30 |
frequency | 1 |
We need to solve the following equation to arrive at the
required FV
So the FV is $54360.93 rounded to two decimal places