232k views
5 votes
Suppose that you won a lawsuit and were awarded a series of payments of $10,000 a year for 10 years. Assuming an interest rate of 7%, how much would get in a lump-sum payment today?

User Whidy
by
6.9k points

1 Answer

6 votes
Okay. So it's $10,000 per year, which is $100,000 in 10 years. I'm not so sure how to solve it exactly, but I found a lump sum calculator online. I put the information on that and according to the calculator, today's payment in a lump sum would be $50,894.93. The future value is $100,000 with 10 periods (in this case, years) of the interest rate of 7% once per year. I think that the answer is $50,894.93.
User Ashwini Jha
by
7.2k points