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A lottery claims its grand prize is $10 million, payable over 20 years at $500,000 per year. If the first payment is made immediately, what is this grand prize really worth? Use an interest rate of 6%.

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Answer:

$6,079,058.25

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a simple present value problem. Using a financial calculator:N  20; PMT  500,000; FV  0; I  6%; Pmts in BEGIN mode.Compute PV : PV  $6,079,058.25

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