Suppose that you want to avoid paying interest and decide you'll only buy the furniture when you have the money to pay for it. An annuity is basically the opposite of a fixed-installment loan: you deposit a fixed amount each month and receive interest based on the total amount that's been saved. The future value formula is: 12t r 1374 [(1 - 1) ™-1-] 12M 1+ 12 A = where è is the regular monthly payment, › is the annual interest rate in decimal form, and is the term of the annuity in years. If you chose an annuity with a term of two years at 4.8% and a monthly payment of $120, the future value would be $3016.45. Recalculate the future value amount if you're willing to raise your monthly payment $20 per month. Round your answer to the nearest cent. The future value would be $ X

Please answer this question: What is the value at the end of Year 3 of the following cash flow stream if interest is 4% compounded semiannually? (Hint: you can use the EAR and treat the cash flows as an ordinary annuity or use the periodic rate and compound the cash flows individually.) What is the PV? What would be wrong with your answer to parts I(1) and I(2) if you used the nominal rate, 4%, rather than the EAR or the periodic rate, I sow /2=4%/2=2%, to solve the problems?

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