What was the original interest rate?

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Chapter4: Time Value Of Money
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Question 6. One day, a letter arrives in your mailbox. The letter comes from a trusted attorney 
firm, indicating that you have inherited $500,000 USD from a long lost relative, and that such 
amount has been accumulated over the last 50 years thanks to compound interest. You also 
know from family hearsay that the initial amount was 50 times smaller than the current 
amount. What was the original interest rate?」

 

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