1. Suppose you receive $100 at the end of each year for the next three years. If the interest rate is 8%, what is the present value of these cash flows?

2. When you purchased your car, you took out a five-year annual-payment loan with an interest rate of 6% per year. The annual payment on the car is $5,000. You have just made a payment and have now decided to pay off the loan by repaying the outstanding balance. What is the payoff amount if have owned the car for four years (so there is one year left on the loan)?

3. You are trying to decide how much to save for retirement. Assume you plan to save $5,000 per year with the first investment made one year from now. You think you can earn 10% per year on your investments and you plan to retire in 43 years, immediately after making your last $5,000 investment. If, instead of investing $5,000 per year, you wanted to make one lump-sum investment today for your retirement that will result in the same retirement saving, how much would that lump sum need to be?