. Sequoia Saws, Inc. issued a large dollar volume of bonds several years ago. Each bond has a 5.8% annual coupon interest rate, with interest paid semiannually, and each bond will mature 22 years from today at its $1,000 par value. Today you buy some of those bonds for the current market price of $936.61 each. What will your realized compound yield on this investment be if you hold each bond until it matures and can reinvest each semiannual coupon payment, from the day you get it until the maturity date, for a return expressed as a 6.2961% effective annual rate (EAR)? [Realized compound yield is the modified internal rate of return on a bond investment.]

• A. 4.8391%
• B. 10.0573%
• C. 4.1769%
• D. 6.3765%
• E. 12.8555%