Discount-Mart issues $17 million in bonds on January 1, 2021. The bonds have a ten-year term and pay interest semiannually on June 30 and December 31 each year. Below is a partial bond amortization schedule for the bonds:   Date Cash Paid Interest Expense Increase in Carrying Value Carrying Value 01/01/2021       $15, 050,113            $ 15,050,113   06/30/2021 $850,000 903,007 53, 007 $15, 103,120                 12/31/2021 850,000 906,187 56, 187 15,159,307                 06/30/2022 850,000 909,558 59, 558 15,218,865                 12/31/2022 850,000 913,132 63, 132 15,281,997                   What is the market annual rate of interest on the bonds? (Hint: Be sure to provide the annual rate rather than the six-month rate.)

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Discount-Mart issues $17 million in bonds on January 1, 2021. The bonds have a ten-year term and pay interest semiannually on June 30 and December 31 each year. Below is a partial bond amortization schedule for the bonds:
 

Date Cash Paid Interest
Expense
Increase in
Carrying Value
Carrying
Value
01/01/2021       $15, 050,113            $ 15,050,113  
06/30/2021 $850,000 903,007 53, 007 $15, 103,120                
12/31/2021 850,000 906,187 56, 187 15,159,307                
06/30/2022 850,000 909,558 59, 558 15,218,865                
12/31/2022 850,000 913,132 63, 132 15,281,997                
 


What is the market annual rate of interest on the bonds? (Hint: Be sure to provide the annual rate rather than the six-month rate.)

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