The annually compounded discount rate is 5.5%. You are asked to calculate the present value of a 12-year annuity with payments of $50,000 per year. Calculate PV for each of the following cases.

a. The annuity payments arrive at one-year intervals. The first payment arrives one year from now.

b. The first payment arrives in six months. Following payments arrive at one-year intervals

(i.e., at 18 months, 30 months, etc.).

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