A shirt factory has just installed a boiler.  It is expected that there will be no maintenance expense until the end of the 11th year, when P 400 will be spent on the boiler every year until the boiler be scrapped at the age of 35 years.  What sum of money will be set aside at this time at 6% interest will take care all the maintenance expense of the boiler?

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A shirt factory has just installed a boiler.  It is expected that there will be no maintenance expense until the end of the 11th year, when P 400 will be spent on the boiler every year until the boiler be scrapped at the age of 35 years.  What sum of money will be set aside at this time at 6% interest will take care all the maintenance expense of the boiler? 

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