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Today you want to endow a scholarship that will pay ​$5 000 per year​ forever, starting 10 years from now. If the​ school's endowment discount rate is 7​%, what amount must you donate to endow the​ scholarship?

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Today you want to endow a scholarship that will pay ​$5 000 per year​ forever, starting 10 years from now. If the​ school's endowment discount rate is 7​%, what amount must you donate to endow the​ scholarship?

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To calculate the amount you need to donate to endow the scholarship, you can use the formula for the present value of a perpetuity. A perpetuity is a type of annuity that pays forever. The formula is:

PV = C / r

where:

  • PV is the present value, or the amount you need to donate today,
  • C is the cash flow per period, or the scholarship amount per year, and
  • r is the discount rate.

In this case, C = $5,000 and r = 7% or 0.07. However, since the scholarship starts paying 10 years from now, we need to discount the perpetuity back to today. This is done by dividing the perpetuity by (1 + r)^n, where n is the number of periods until the scholarship starts paying.

So, the calculation would be:

PV = C / r / (1 + r)^n PV = $5,000 / 0.07 / (1 + 0.07)^10

Now, calculate the above expression to find the present value.

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