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- The 6-month US Treasury bill is trading at 98.91% of par while the 1-year US Treasury bill is trading at 97.56% of par. What is the 6 month forward 6 month rate? Please give your answer as an annualized rate and such that if the value is 10.2% you type in 10.2 (not decimal, not 0.102)"At a market interest rate of 7% per year and an inflation rate of 5% per year, a series of three equal annual receipts of $100 in constant dollars is equivalent to a series of three annual receipts of $108 in actual dollars." Which of the following statements is correct?(a) The amount of actual dollars is overstated.(b) The amount of actual dollars is understated.(c) The amount of actual dollars is about right.(d) Sufficient information is not available to make a comparison.Suppose you invest $1,500 in an account paying 6% interest per year. How much of this balance corresponds to interest on interest earned in the last (7th) period? (Dollar figures should be approximated to the nearest cent of a dollar, while rates should be expressed in percentage terms without using the "%" symbol and approximated to the nearest second decimal place.)
- Suppose that your salary is $45,000 in year one, will increase at 4%per year through year four, and is expressed in actual dollars as follows: If the general price inflation rate (f ) is expected to average 6% per year, what is the real dollar equivalent of these actual-dollar salary amounts? Assume that the base time period is year one (b = 1).Assume that in 2020, a Liberty Seated half dollar issued in 1891 was sold for $209,000. What was the rate of return on this investment? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.Assume the CPI increases from 139.2 to 142.6 over the period. What is the inflation rate implied by this CPI change over this period? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)