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- ANNUITIES
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- An ANNUITY is a series of equal
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- payments made at equal intervals of
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- time. Periodic payments of an
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- ORDINARY ANNUITY are made at the end
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- of each period.
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- The AMOUNT of an annuity is the sum
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- of the compound amounts of all of the
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- payments accumulated to the end of the
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- term.
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- Consider a simple case. Suppose you
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- deposit $100 at the end of each month
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- for five months. The bank pays 12%
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- interest compounded monthly. The
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- first payment will be in the bank for
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- four months, thus the compound amount
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- on that $100 at the end of the fifth
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- month will be
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- 100(1.01) .
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- Similarly with the other payments.
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- PAYMENT NO. of MONTHS AMOUNT at END
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- 4
- 1 4 100(1.01) =104.06
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- 3
- 2 3 100(1.01) =103.03
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- 2
- 3 2 100(1.01) =102.01
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- 4 1 100(1.01) =101.00
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- 5 0 100 =100.00
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- TOTAL OF ALL AMOUNTS =510.10
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- This is exactly how a loan is paid
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- off. At the end of each month one
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- makes a payment on a loan.
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- To find the amount of an annuity of
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- a series of payments of amount R,
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- interest rate i per period, for n
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- periods, the formula is
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- n-1 n-2
- S=R(1+1) +R(1+i) +...+R(1+1)+R
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- which can be simplified to
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- R((1+i) - 1)
- S = -----------
- i
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- On your C-64 that would be
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- S = R*((1+i)^n-1)/i.
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