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A.) Accrued Interest: You purchase a bond with an invoice price of $948. The bond has a coupon rate of 5.9 percent, and there are four months to the next semiannual coupon date. What is the clean price of the bond?

B.) Valuing Bonds: Colin Weih Corporation has two different bonds currently outstanding. Bond M has a face value of $20,000 and matures in 20 years. The bond makes no payments for the first six years, then pays $900 every six months over the subsequent eight years, and finally pays $1,300 every six months over the last six years. Bond N also has a face value of $20,000 and a maturity of 20 years; it makes no coupon payments over the life of the bond. If the required return on both these bonds is 5.4 percent compounded semiannually, what is the current price of Bond M? Of Bond N?