Which of the following situations represent investment or saving? Explain.  Your family takes out a mortgage and buys a new house.  You use your $200 paycheck to buy stock in AT&T.  Your roommate earns $100 and deposits it in his account at a bank.  You borrow $1,000 from a bank to buy a car to use in your pizza delivery business.

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  1. Which of the following situations represent investment or saving? Explain. 
  1. Your family takes out a mortgage and buys a new house. 
  2. You use your $200 paycheck to buy stock in AT&T. 
  3. Your roommate earns $100 and deposits it in his account at a bank. 
  4. You borrow $1,000 from a bank to buy a car to use in your pizza delivery business. 

 

  1. For each of the following pairs, which bond would you expect to pay a higher interest rate? Explain. 
    1. A bond that repays the principal in year 2030 or a bond that repays the principal in year 2040.     2 . A bond from Coca-Cola or a bond from a software company you run in your garage. 

 

 

 

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