Chapter 5
Which of the following is the actual rate of interest paid or earned over a year's time?
Wrong Answer: the periodic rate
Which of the following has the highest time value of money at the same time interest rate for the same number of payments
Correct Answer: the future value or an annuity-due
Which of the following would increase the present value of a single cash flow?
Wrong Answer: a decrease in the cash flow
You invest $1000 at 6% compounded annually and want to know how much money you will have in 5 years. What does the $1000 represent?
Correct Answer: the present value
What is the appropriate interest rate and number of time periods to use to find the monthly payment for a 30-year mortgage at 6%
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a. a decrease in the interest rate
b. an increase in the cash flow
c. an increase in the interest rate
d. a decrease in the time period
ANSWER: C
At what point in time is the present value of an ordinary annuity found?
a. at the time of the last annuity payment
b. at the time of the first annuity payment
c. a period after the last annuity payment
d. a period before the first annuity payment
ANSWER: D
Which of the following has the lowest time value of money at the same interest rate for the same number of payments?
a. The present value of an ordinary annuity
b. The present value of an annuity-due
c. The future value of an ordinary annuity
d. The future value or an annuity-due
ANSWER: A
Which of the following is the actual rate of interest paid or earned over a year's time?
a. the periodic rate
b. the effective annual rate
c. the nominal annual rate
d. the annual percentage rate
ANSWER: B
What is the appropriate interest rate and number of time periods to use to find the monthly payment for a 30-year mortgage at 6% compounded monthly?
a. 6% and 30
b. 6% and 360
c. 0.5% and 30
d. 0.5% and 360
ANSWER: D
Chapter 5 Post-Quiz
1.(Points: 1) | | Which of the following bank accounts has the highest effective annual return?
a. An account that pays 10% nominal interest with monthly compounding.
b.
Option 2: A 15-year fixed rate mortgage with two points and an APR of 4.5%, compounded monthly.
What annual interest rate is needed to produce $200,000 after five years if only $100,000 is invested?
10. An investment of $1,000 today will grow to $1,100 in one year. What is the continuously compounded rate of return?
Therefore the annual interest rate is 8% and the effective annual rate compounded quarterly is 8.24%
Interest earned now can be found from getting the difference between the principal and amount.
2. If you had a payment that was due you in 5 years for $50,000 and you could earn a 5% rate of return, how much
Your bank account pays a 6% nominal rate of interest. The interest is compounded quarterly. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
3. Assume that 11% is the market rate of interest in on January 1, 1975. Compute the present value at January 1, 1975 of all payments that will be made on
What is the present value of $7,540 to be received at the end of each of 18 periods, discounted at 5% compound interest?
The interest rate expressed as if it were compounded once per year is called the _____ rate.
17. You have been told that you need $21,600 today in order to have $100,000 when you retire 42 years from now. What rate of interest was used in the present value computation? Assume interest is
After the calculations you end up coming out with a rate of 14.87%. The third and final part of question three asks what rate you will need if the interest is compounded semiannually. All you have to do is double the amount of terms and you will come out with a lower number of 7.177%. Since the interest is compounded semiannually that means that you will need to times that number by two and you come out with your final number of 14.35%.
1. $5,500 deposited four years ago has grown to $7,000. What semiannual compounded rate of interest