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Say Mary would like to create a scholarship for $2,500 per year at ECU in her family's name. If the money market rate where the corpus will be placed to earn interest is 5.5% and if the inflation rate is 4.0%, how much will she have to donate?

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Answer:

the amount that she have to donate is $166,666.70

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the amount that she have to donate is shown below:

Donation amount is

= Annual scholarship ÷ (interest rate - inflation rate)

= $2,500 ÷ (5.5% - 4.0%)

= $2,500 ÷ 1.5%

= $166,666.70

hence, the amount that she have to donate is $166,666.70

We simply applied the above formula so that the correct value could come

And, the same is to be considered

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