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Although appealing to more refined tastes, art as a collectible has not always performed so profitably. Assume that in 2015, an auction house sold a statute at auction for a price of $10,668,500. Unfortunately for the previous owner, he had purchased it in 2008 at a price of $12,700,500. What was his annual rate of return on this sculpture?

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-0.0246 or -2.46%

Step-by-step explanation:

The duration 't' of his investment is:


t= 2015-2008=7\ years

The future value ($10,668,500) of an initial investment ($12,700,500) at a rate 'r' for a period of 7 years is given by:


10,668,500=12,700,500*(1+r)^7\\1+r=\sqrt[7]{(10,668,500)/(12,700,500)}\\1+r=0.9754\\r=-0.0246=-2.46\%

His annual rate of return was -0.0246 or -2.46%.

*A negative rate of return means that money was lost in this investment

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