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59. To find the quarterly salary for the player, we first need to find the PV of the current contract. The
cash flows for the contract are annual, and we are given a daily interest rate. We need to find the
EAR so the interest compounding is the same as the timing of the cash flows. The EAR is:
The PV of the current contract offer is the sum of the PV of the cash flows. So, the PV is:
PV = $6,500,000 + $5,100,000 / 1.0492 + $5,600,000 / 1.04922 + $6,100,000 / 1.04923
The player wants the contract increased in value by $2,000,000, so the PV of the new contract will
be:
The player has also requested a signing bonus payable today in the amount of $10 million. We can
To find the quarterly payments, first realize that the interest rate we need is the effective quarterly
rate. Using the daily interest rate, we can find the quarterly interest rate using the EAR equation,
with the number of days being 91.25, the number of days in a quarter (= 365 / 4). The effective
quarterly rate is:
Now we have the interest rate, the length of the annuity, and the PV. Using the PVA equation and
solving for the payment, we get:
60. The time line is:
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To find the APR and EAR, we need to use the actual cash flows of the loan. In other words, the