In 1626, Peter Minuit traded trinkets worth $24 to a tribe of Native Americans for land on
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In 1626, Peter Minuit traded trinkets worth $24 to a tribe of Native Americans for land on Manhattan Island. Assume that in 1990 the same land was worth $25.2 billion. If the sellers in this transaction had invested their $24 at 7% annual interest compounded continuously during the entire 364-year period, who would have gotten the better end of the deal? By how much?
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Calculus For Business, Economics And The Social And Life Sciences
ISBN: 9780073532387
11th Brief Edition
Authors: Laurence Hoffmann, Gerald Bradley, David Sobecki, Michael Price
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