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Present Value You are awarded $500,000 in a lawsuit, payable immediately. The defendant makes a counteroffer of $50,000 per year for the first three years, starting at the end of the first year, followed by $60,000 per year for the next 10 years. Should you accept the offer if the discount rate is 12%? How about if the discount rate is 8%? 22. You are considering buying a Back Bay two-bedroom apartment for $800,000. You plan to make a $200,000 down payment and take a $600,000 30-year mortgage for the rest. The interest rate on the mortgage is 6% monthly APR. Payments are due at the end of every month. (a) What is the effective annual rate? (b) What is the monthly payment?

1. You can invest $10,000 in a certificate of deposit (CD) offered by your bank. The CD is for 5 years and the bank quotes you a rate of 4.5%. How much will you have in 5 years if the 4.5% is (a) an EAR? (b) a quarterly APR? (c) a monthly APR? 2. (W) e-Money rates. An internet company, e-Money, is offering a money market account with an A.P.R. of 4.75%. What is the effective annual interest rate offered by e-Money if the compounding interval is (a) annual (b) monthly (c) weekly (d) continuously? 3. You can invest $50,000 in a certificate of deposit (CD) offered by your bank. The CD is for 2 years and the bank quotes you a rate of 4%. How much will you have in 2 years if the 4% is (a) an EAR? (b) a quarterly APR? (c) a monthly APR? (a) an EAR? (b) a quarterly APR? (c) a monthly APR? 5. e-Money rates. An internet company, e-Money, is offering a money market account with an A.P.R. of 5.25%. What is the effective annual interest rate offered by e-Money if the compounding interval is (a) annual (b) monthly (c) daily Fall 2008 Page 1 of 66 (d) continuously? 6. True, false or "it depends" (give a brief explanation): PV is sometimes calculated by discounting free cash flow for several years, say from year 1 to T, and then discounting a forecasted terminal value at horizon date T. The choice of the horizon date can hae a significant effect on PV, particularly for rapidly growing firms. 7. Suppose you invest $10,000 per year for 10 years at an average return of 5.5%. The average future inflation rate is 2% per year. (a) The first investment is made immediately. What is your ending investment balance? (b) What is its purchasing power in todays dollars? 8. Overhaul of a production line generates the following incremental cash inflows over the line's 5-year remaining life. C1 C2 C3 C4 C5

9. You have just inherited an office building. You expect the annual rental income (net of maintenance and other cost) for the building to be $100,000 for the next year and to increase at 5% per year indefinitely. A expanding internet company offers to rent the building at a fixed annual rent for 5 years. After year 5, you could re-negotiate or rent the building to another tenant. What is the minimum acceptable fixed rental payments for this five-year agreement? Use a discount rate of 12%. 10. Two dealers compete to sell you a new Hummer with a list price of $45,000. Dealer C offers to sell it for $40,000 cash. Dealer F offers "0-percent financing:" 48 monthly payments of $937.50. (48x937.50=45,000) (a) You can finance purchase by withdrawals from a money market fund yielding 2% per year. Which deal is better? (b) You always carry unpaid credit card balances charging interest at 15% per year. Which deal is better? 11. Your sales are $10 million this and expected to grow at 5% in real terms for the next three years. The appropriate nominal discount rate is 10%. The inflation is expected to be 2% per year during the same period. What is the present value of your sales revenue for the next three years? Fall 2008 Page 2 of 66 12. Company ABC's after-tax cash flow is $10 million (at the end of) this year and expected to grow at 5% per year forever. The appropriate discount rate is 9%. What is the value of company ABC? 13. You own three oil wells in Vidalia, Texas. They are expected to produce 7,000 barrels next year in total, but production is declining by 6 percent every year after that. Fortunately, you have a contract fixing the selling price at $15 per barrel for the next 12 years. What is the present value of the revenues from the well during the remaining life of the contract? Assume a discount rate of 8 percent. 14. A geothermal power station produces cash flow at a current rate of $14 million per year, after maintenance, all operating expenses and taxes. All the cash flow is paid out to the power stations owners. The cash flow is expected to grow at the inflation rate, which is forecasted at 2% per year. The opportunity cost of capital is 8%, about 3 percentage points above the long-term Treasury rate. (Assume this is an annually compounded rate.) The power station will operate for a very long time. Assume for simplicity that it will last forever. (a) What is the present value of the power station? Assume the first cash flow is received one year hence. (b) Now assume that the power stations cash flow is generated in a continuous stream, starting immediately. What is the present value? 15. A foundation announces that it will be offering one MIT scholarship every year for an indefinite number of years. The first scholarship is to be offered exactly one year from now. When the scholarship is offered, the student will receive $20,000 annually for a period of four years, beginning from the date the scholarship is offered. This student is then expected to repay the principal amount received ($80,000) in 10 equal annual installments, interest-free, starting one year after the expiration of her scholarship. This implies that the foundation is really giving an interest-free loan under the guise of a scholarship. The current interest is 6% for all maturities and is expected to remain unchanged. (a) What is the PV of the first scholarship? (b) The foundation invests a lump sum to fund all future scholarships. Determine the size of the investment today. 16. You signed a rental lease for an office space in the Back Bay for five years with an annual rent of $1 million, paid at the beginning of each year of the lease. Just before you pay your first rent, the property owner wants to use the space for another purpose and proposes to buy back the lease from you. The rent for similar space is now $1.25 million per year. What would be the minimum compensation that you would ask from the property owner? Assume the interest rate to be 6%. Fall 2008 Page 3 of 66 17. The annual membership fee at your health club is $750 a year and is expected to increase at 5% per year. A life membership is $7,500 and the discount rate is 12%. In order to justify taking out the life membership, what would be your minimum life expectancy? 18. You are considering buying a car worth $30,000. The dealer, who is anxious to sell the car, offers you an attractive financing package. You have to make a down-payment of $3,500, and pay the rest over 5 years with annual payments. The dealer will charge you interest at a constant annual interest rate of 2%, which may be different from the market interest rate. (a) What is the annual payment to the dealer? (b) The dealer offers you a second option: you pay cash, but get a $2,500 rebate. Should you go for the loan or should you pay cash? Assume that the market annual interest rate is constant at 5%. Note: the tradeoff between the two options is that in the first case, you can finance your purchase at a relatively low rate of interest. In the second case, you receive a lump-sum cash rebate. 19. Your brother-in-law asks you to lend him $100,000 as a second mortgage on his vacation home. He promises to make level monthly payments for 10 years, 120 payments in all. You decide that a fair interest rate is 8% compounded annually. What should the monthly payment be on the $100,000 loan? 20. Your cousin is entering medical school next fall and asks you for financial help. He needs $65,000 each year for the first two years. After that, he is in residency for two years and will be able to pay you back $10,000 each year. Then he graduates and becomes a fully qualified doctor, and will be able to pay you $40,000 each year. He promises to pay you $40,000 for 5 years after he graduates. Are you taking a financial loss or gain by helping him out? Assume that the interest rate is 5% and that there is no risk. 21. You are awarded $500,000 in a lawsuit, payable immediately. The defendant makes a counteroffer of $50,000 per year for the first three years, starting at the end of the first year, followed by $60,000 per year for the next 10 years. Should you accept the offer if the discount rate is 12%? How about if the discount rate is 8%? 22. You are considering buying a Back Bay two-bedroom apartment for $800,000. You plan to make a $200,000 down payment and take a $600,000 30-year mortgage for the rest. The interest rate on the mortgage is 6% monthly APR. Payments are due at the end of every month. (a) What is the effective annual rate? (b) What is the monthly payment?