You invested $2,500 in Awesome Software, Inc. The company did well that year, and you received a check for $300. What was your rate of rate of return on this investment?

You are thinking about investing $4,692 in your​ friend's landscaping business. Even though you know the investment is risky and you​ can't be​ sure, you expect your investment to be worth $5,738 next year. You notice that the rate for​ one-year Treasury bills is 1%. ​However, you feel that other investments of equal risk to your​ friend's landscape business offer an expected return of 8% for the year. What should you​ do?.

You wrote a piece of software that does a better job of allowing computers to network than any other program designed for this purpose. A large networking company wants to incorporate your software into its systems and is offering to pay you $549,000 today, plus $549,000 at the end of each of the following six years, for permission to do this. If the appropriate interest rate is 6 percent, what is the present value of the cash flow stream that the company is offering you? (Round factor values to 4 decimal places, e.g. 1.5215 and final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25.) Present value   $

You just borrowed $15,000 from a finance company to start a business. If you are required to repay $16,800 interest and principal in one year, what is the nominal interest rate that the finance company is charging? If inflation is 2.5%, what is the expected real rate of interest?