CHAPTER 5 The Time Value of Money 213 Mini Case This Mini Case is available in MyLab Finance. For your job as the business reporter for a local newspaper, you are given the task of putting together a series of articles that explain the power of the time value of money to your readers. Your editor would like you to address several specific questions in addition to demonstrating for the readership the use of time value of money tech- niques by applying them to several problems. What would be your response to the following memorandum from your editor? To: Business Reporter From: Perry White, Editor, Daily Planet Re: Upcoming Series on the Importance and Power of the Time Value of Money In your upcoming series on the time value of money, I would like to make sure you cover several specific points. In addition, before you begin this assignment, I want to make sure we are all reading from the same script, as accuracy has always been the cornerstone of the Daily Planet. In this regard, I'd like a response to the following questions before we proceed: e. What is an annuity due? How does this differ from an ordinary annuity? f. What is the present value of an ordinary annuity of $1,000 per year for 7 years discounted back to the present at 10 percent? What would be the present value if it were an annuity due? g. What is the future value of an ordinary annuity of $1,000 per year for 7 years compounded at 10 percent? What would be the future value if it were an an- nuity due? h. You have just borrowed $100,000, and you agree to pay it back over the next 25 years in 25 equal end-of-year payments plus 10 percent compound interest on the unpaid balance. What will be the size of these payments