Question

13. You just won a prize that comes with two payout choices. The first option is to get $100,000 right now and nothing hereafter. The second option is to get $94,000 right now and $10,000 three years from now (and nothing after that). If your discount rate is 8%, which should you take?

Answer 1

Answer:

C.second option

Explanation:

The computation is shown below

The present value of option 1 is $100,000

And, the present value of option 2 is

= $94,000 + $10,000 × Present value of discounting factor(8%,3)

= $94,000 + ($10,000 ÷ 1.08^3)

= $101,938.32

So as we can see that the option 2 has the highest present value so the right option is c.