The U$.$S$.$ Treasury offers to sell you a bond for $$613\mathrm{.}81.$ No payments will be made until the bond

matures $10$ years from now, at which time it will be redeemed for $$1,000.$ What interest rate would

you earn if you bought this bond at the offer price?

Simple growth rate

Sims Inc. earned $$1\mathrm{.}00$ per share in $2000.$ Five years later, in $2005,$ it earned $$2\mathrm{.}00.$ What was the

growth rate in Sims' earnings per share $($EPS$)$ over the $5-$year period?