On her 23rd birthday. an engineer decides to start saving toward building up a retirement fund that pays 9% interest compounded quarterly (market interest rate). She feels that $800.000 worth of purchasing power in today's dollars will be adequate to see her through her sunset years after her 63rd birthday. Assume a general inflation rate of 5% per year. (a) If she plans to save by making 160 equal quarterly deposits, what should be the amount of each quarterly deposit in actual dollars?(b) If she plans to save by making end-of-the-year deposits, increasing by $1,000 over each subsequent year, how much would her first deposit be in actual dollars?

Adele is planning for retirement. She would like to have $75,000 in her hand at the beginning of her first year of retirement at age 65 to live on for the year. She estimates that the amount will have to grow by 6% every year to keep up with inflation. What APR (nominal rate per year) should her retirement account earn if it is compounded continuously? She plans to deposit $21,000 on her 40th birthday and plans to keep increasing the deposits by 6% every year and till her 64th birthday. She estimates her life expectancy to be 85, meaning she would like to have the last retirement payment on her 85th birthday.

Jane wants to retire with $2,000,000 in her retirement account exactly 35 years from today. If she thinks she can earn an interest rate of 10. percent compounded monthly, how much must she deposit each month to fund her retirement? $432.83 O $493,32 O $526.78 $582.32

Jennifer Davis is saving to buy a house in five years. She plans to put 20 percent down at that time, and she believes that she will need $28,000 for the down payment. If Jennifer can invest in a fund that pays 7.0 percent annual interest, compounded quarterly, how much will she have to invest today to have enough money for the down payment? (Round intermediate calculations to 6 decimal places, e.g. 2.512512 and final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 2,515.25.) Excel Template (Note: This template includes the problem statement as it appears in your textbook. The problem assigned to you here may have different values. When using this template, copy the problem statement from this screen for easy reference to the values you've been given here, and be sure to update any values that may have been pre-entered in the template based on the textbook version of the problem.) Amount to be invested today