Question

Retirement Investment Advisors, Inc., has just offered you an annual interest rate of 4 percent until you retire in 40 years. You believe that interest rates will increase over the next year and you would be offered 4.6 percent per year one year from today. If you plan to deposit $11,000 into the account either this year or next year, how much more will you have when you retire if you wait one year to make your deposit

Answer 1

$10,741

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the more amount is shown below;

Here we have to determine the future value i.e.

As we know that

Future value = Present value × (1 + rate of interest)^number of years

For option A

= $11,000 × (1 + 0.04)^40

= $52,811

For option B

= $11,000 × (1 + 0.046)^39

= $63,552

Now the more amount is

= $63,552 - $52,811

= $10,741