Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH104/December 2012/Question 01 (j)
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You invest $100 000 now at an annual interest rate of 7%, compounded continuously. Your plan is to retire once the rate of growth of your investment is $10 000 per year. In how many years will you retire? |
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Recall the formula for continuously compounded interest . What can we do with this equation to determine an expression for the rate of change of A, the value of the investment, in time? |
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Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. Recall the formula for continuously compounded interest, where are the future value, principal and growth rate respectively and is the time since the investment was made. The rate of growth of the investment is simply the time derivative of the future value (i.e. ). Evaluating the time derivative of gives: By the information given in the question, we want to solve for the time when the dollars/year, given dollars and /year. Therefore, we would need to wait (100/7)ln(10/7) years for our initial investment to be growing at a rate of $10,000 per year so we can retire. |