Saul Cervantes has just purchased some equipment for his landscaping business. For this equipment he must pay the following amounts at the end of each   of the next five years: $10, 450, $ 8, 500, $9,675, $12, 500, and $11, 635. If the appropriate discount rate  is  10.875 percent, what is the cost in today's  dollars of the  equipment Saul purchased today?

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Saul Cervantes has just purchased some equipment for his landscaping business. For this equipment he must pay the following amounts at the end of each  
of the next five years: $10, 450, $ 8, 500, $9,675, $12, 500, and $11, 635. If the appropriate discount rate  is  10.875 percent, what is the cost in today's  dollars of the 
equipment Saul purchased today?                        
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