Tutorial Simple Interest & Rate of Return
Tutorial Simple Interest & Rate of Return
Tutorial Simple Interest & Rate of Return
1. What is the total amount accumulated after three years if someone invests $1,000 today
with a simple annual interest rate of 5 percent?
2. Calculate the future value of $2000 after three years if the appropriate interest rate is 8
percent?
3. Muskan deposits $10,000 today and is promised a return of $17,000 in eight years. What
is the annual rate of return?
4. What will $1,000 be worth at the end of one year when the annual interest rate is 12%?
5. How much should you pay for an investment that pays $1,500 per year for the next three years
and then $2,000 per year for the following two years? Assume a discount rate of 15% per year?
6. An investor deposits £1,000 into an account that pays interest of 9%. What is the value of
the account at the end of six years?
7. Your client invests $2 million in a security that matures in 4 years and pays 7.5 percent
annual interest rate. Assuming no interim cash flows, which of the following will most likely be
the value of the investment at maturity?
8. Your client deposits $5 million in a savings account that pays 5 percent per year. What
will be the value of this deposit after 2.5 years?
9. Mr X plans to invest $12 million. The rate of return has been estimated at 8 percent per
year. What is the future value of this investment 11 years from now?
10. You invest $50,000 for three years that will earn 3.6 percent annually. What will be the
value of your investment after three years?
11. Last year an investor received $500 income from a $10,000 investment and sold the investment at
the end of the year for $11,000. What was the investor's annual rate of return?
12. If the average rate of return on large company common stock has been 13% over the last sixty
years, while inflation averaged 3.2% over the same period, what real rate of return did investors in a well
diversified large company stock portfolio earn?