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You plan to invest an amount of money in five (5) year
certificate of deposit (CD)...
You plan to invest an amount of money in five (5) year
certificate of deposit (CD) at your bank. The stated interest rate
applied to the CD is 12 percent, compounded monthly and paid out at
the end of the five years. How much must you invest today if you
want the balance in the CD account to be $30,000 in seven (7)
years? (Hint:Need to adjust time and interest rate for monthly
compounding - e.g., time is 84 periods, interest rate becomes
____%?)