Your financial planner offers you two different investment plans. Plan X is a $15,000 annual...

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Your financial planner offers you two different investment plans. Plan X is a $15,000 annual perpetuity. Plan Y is a 14-year, $25,000 annual annuity. Both plans will make their first payment one year from today.

At what discount rate would you be indifferent between these two plans?

Annuity and Perpetuity:

An annuity is a stream of payments of equal amount that are delivered at a fixed frequency. A perpetuity is a special kind of annuity that does not have a specific end date. Therefore, a perpetuity could in principal pay forever.

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The discount rate is 6.76% for you to be indifferent.

Given a discount rate {eq}r {/eq}, the present value of a perpetuity with payment {eq}M{/eq}...

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