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Required Lump-Sum Payment
To complete your last year in business school and then go through law school, you will need $20,000 per year for 4 years, starting next year (that is, you will need to withdraw the first $20,000 one year from today). Your uncle offers to put you through school, and he will deposit in a bank paying 8.61% interest a sum of money that is sufficient to provide the 4 payments of $20,000 each. His deposit will be made today.
Lumpsum amount is $232,288.04
Alternative Answer:
a. $65,353
b. $50,979.89
c. $0
Follow whichever answer more suitable to you. I would follow the second solutions(Alternative Answer) if the same was asked to me in the exam.