Payment amounts at the end of each of the next five years are $10,450, $8,500, $9,675, $12,500, and $11,635. Discount rate is 10.875%. We need to determine the cost in today's dollars of the equipment Saul purchased today.

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Payment amounts at the end of each of the next five years are $10,450, $8,500, $9,675, $12,500, and $11,635.
Discount rate is 10.875%.
We need to determine the cost in today's dollars of the equipment Saul purchased today.

 

I really need the formulas on how you got to the answers =PV(D17,D13,-D15) I got the first on I do not understand the rest for the Present value and how the answer comes up with $38, 652.76 I have different ways and still do not understand.

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