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Valuing Delayed Annuities; Amortizing Loan;Interest rate ris

34. Valuing Delayed Annuities. Suppose that you will receive annual payments of $10,000 for a
period of 10 years. The first payment will be made 4 years from now. If the interest rate is 5
percent, what is the present value of this stream of payments?

36. Amortizing Loan. You take out a 30-year $100,000 mortgage loan with an APR of 6 percent
What is the principal balance on the loan?

29. Annuity Value. Your landscaping company can lease a truck for $8,000 a year (paid at yearend)
for 6 years. It can instead buy the truck for $40,000. The truck will be valueless after 6
years. If the interest rate your company can earn on its funds is 7 percent, is it cheaper to buy
or lease?

28. Interest Rate Risk. Suppose interest rates increase from 8 percent to 9 percent. Which bond
will suffer the greater percentage decline in price: a 30-year bond paying annual coupons of 8
percent, or a 30-year zero coupon bond? Can you explain intuitively why the zero exhibits
greater interest rate risk even though it has the same maturity as the coupon bond?

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34. In this case you should find the PVIFA for 14 years and for 4 years. Subtract the 4 year value from the 14 year value to get the PVIFA to 10 years with a 4 year delay. PVIFA for 14 years at 5% is 9.899 and for 4 years and 5% is 3.546. For 10 years with a delay of 4 years is 9.899-3.546=6.353. The Present Value is ...

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The solution has various problems relating to annuties and interest rate risk