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You recently won $80 million in lottery. You will receive 20 payments of $4 million per year (starting from today). If the interest rate is 6.5%, what is your lottery payment worth today?
| year | Cash flow | PVIF @ 6.5% | present value |
| 1 | 4 | 1 | $ 4.00 |
| 2 | 4 | 0.938967136 | $ 3.76 |
| 3 | 4 | 0.881659283 | $ 3.53 |
| 4 | 4 | 0.827849092 | $ 3.31 |
| 5 | 4 | 0.777323091 | $ 3.11 |
| 6 | 4 | 0.729880837 | $ 2.92 |
| 7 | 4 | 0.685334119 | $ 2.74 |
| 8 | 4 | 0.643506215 | $ 2.57 |
| 9 | 4 | 0.604231188 | $ 2.42 |
| 10 | 4 | 0.567353228 | $ 2.27 |
| 11 | 4 | 0.532726036 | $ 2.13 |
| 12 | 4 | 0.50021224 | $ 2.00 |
| 13 | 4 | 0.469682854 | $ 1.88 |
| 14 | 4 | 0.441016765 | $ 1.76 |
| 15 | 4 | 0.414100249 | $ 1.66 |
| 16 | 4 | 0.388826524 | $ 1.56 |
| 17 | 4 | 0.365095328 | $ 1.46 |
| 18 | 4 | 0.342812515 | $ 1.37 |
| 19 | 4 | 0.321889685 | $ 1.29 |
| 20 | 4 | 0.302243836 | $ 1.21 |
| $ 46.94 | |||
| Payment worth today = | $ 46.94 | ||