Question

What is the present value of $5000 to be received 10 years from now if the interest rate is 10 percent?

Answer 1

Assuming interest is compounded annually, the present value is 5,000 divided by 1.072 .07 is the intererst rate. The exponent is the number of years (2). So the answer is 4,367.20. After the first year, the value is 4367.20 x 1.07 = 4,672.90 Then, at the end of the second year: 4,672.90 x 1.07 = 5,000