26. Calculating Annuity Present Values Beginning three months from now, you want to be able to withdraw $2,500 each quarter from your bank account to cover college expenses over the next 4 years. If the account pays .47 percent interest per quarter, how much do you need to have in your bank account today to meet your expense needs over the next 4 years?

35. Comparing Cash Flow Streams Youve just joined the investment banking firm of Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe. Theyve offered you two different salary arrangements. You can have $6,100 per month for the next two years, or you can have $5,100 per month for the next two years, along with a $25,000 signing bonus today. If the interest rate is 7 percent compounded monthly, which do you prefer?

58. Calculating Annuity Values You are serving on a jury. A plaintiff is suing the city for injuries sustained after a freak street-sweeper accident. In the trial, doctors testified that it will be five years before the plaintiff is able to return to work. The jury already has decided in favor of the plaintiff. You are the foreperson of the jury and propose that the jury give the plaintiff an award to cover the following: (a) The present value of two years back pay. The plaintiffs annual salary for the last two years would have been $44,000 and $47,000, respectively. (b) The present value of five years future salary. You assume the salary will be $51,000 per year. (c) $200,000 for pain and suffering. (d) $25,000 for court costs. Assume that the salary payments are equal amounts paid at the end of each month. If the interest rate you choose is an EAR of 7 percent, what is the size of the settlement? If you were the plaintiff, would you like to see a higher or lower interest rate?