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You just won a lottery. There are two payout options for you:
Option 1: a lump sum payment of $500,000 today;
Option2: a payment of $20,000per year for the next thirty years(starting from next year until the end of the 30th year)
If the required return is 5%, then what's the NPV of choosing the first payout option for winning this lottery?
Hint: Please regard the(present) value of the second option as opportunity costs in this calculation.
Present value of option 1 = $500000
Present value of option 2 = 20000/1.05+20000/1.05^2+....+20000/1.05^30
=20000/0.05*(1-1/1.05^30)
=$307449.02
NPV of choosing the first payout option for winning this lottery
=PV of 1st option - Opportunity cost( PV of 2nd option)
=500000 - 307449.02
=$192550.98