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Suppose that you will receive $5,000 in year 1, $5,000 in year 2, $5,000 in year 3 and $7,000 in year 5. And somehow you know that the present value for the whole cash stream is $23,071.30. At a 7% discount rate, the cash flow received in year 4 will be ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ.
Select one:
a. $7,000
b. $7,200
c. $6,500
d. $6,800
Let the cash flow received in year 4 will be X.
Computation of total PW of cash flows:
Year (n) |
Cash Flow (C) |
Computation of PV Factor 1/(1+r) n |
PV Factor @ 7 % (F) |
PV (C x F) |
1 |
$5,000 |
1/ (1+0.07)1 |
0.934579439252336 |
$4,672.897196 |
2 |
5,000 |
1/ (1+0.07)2 |
0.873438728273212 |
4,367.193641 |
3 |
5,000 |
1/ (1+0.07)3 |
0.816297876890852 |
4,081.489384 |
4 |
X |
1/ (1+0.07)4 |
0.762895212047525 |
0.762895212047525 X |
5 |
7,000 |
1/ (1+0.07)5 |
0.712986179483668 |
4,990.903256 |
Total PV |
$18,112.48348 + 0.762895212047525 X |
$18,112.48348 + 0.762895212047525 X = $ 23,071.30
0.762895212047525 X = $ 23,071.30 - $18,112.48348
= $ 4,958.81652
X = $ 4,958.81652/0.762895212047525
= $ 6,499.996909 or $ 6,500
The cash flow received in year 4 will be $ 6,500
Hence option “c. $ 6,500” is correct answer.