Question

Your aunt has promised to give you $5,000 when you graduate from college. You expect to graduate three years from now. If you speed up your plans to enable you to graduate two years from now, the present value of the promised gift will: Multiple Choice be less than $5,000. remain constant. decrease. Incorrect equal $5,000. increase

Answer 1

Answer:

The present value of the promised gift will:

be less than $5,000.

Explanation:

The present value of $5,000 to be received in three years' time from today is less than $5,000 received.  This is explained by the time value of money concept.  If the $5,000 gift is discounted to today's value, using a discount factor of 0.751 (10% in three years' time), it would be $3,755 ($5,000 * 0.751).  This means that $5,000 received in year 3 is less than $5,000 received today.