Annuity Present Values and Effective Rates You have won the lottery. You will receive $5,500,000 today, and then receive 40 payments of $1,900,000. These payments will start one year from now and will be paid every six months. A representative from Greenleaf Investments has offered to purchase all the payments from you for $35 million. If the appropriate discount rate is an APR of 9 percent compounded daily, should you take the offer? Assume there are 12 months in a year, each with 30 days.