You just won a lottery. The terms of the lottery are such that you will receive twenty equal annual payments of $400,000. You will receive your first payment of $400,000 three years from today. The lottery authorities use a discount rate of 5 percent per year with annual compounding. You have the option of receiving a lump sum amount today, instead of the aforementioned payments. If you choose the lump sum amount, how much will that amount be?

What is the relationship among market segmentation, target markts, and consumer profiles?

Define the marginal rate of substitution between two goods (x and y). if a consumer’s preferences are given by u(x,y) = x3/4y1/4, compute the consumer’s marginal rate of substitution as a function of x and y. calculate the mrs if the consumer has chosen to consumer 48 units of x and 16 units of y. show your work. (use the back of the page if necessary.

In 2015, lori assigned a paid-up whole life insurance policy to an irrevocable life insurance trust (ilit) for the benefit of her three children. the ilit contained a crummey provision for the benefit of each child. at the time of the transfer, the whole life insurance policy was valued at $200,000, and since lori had not made any other taxable gifts during her lifetime, she did not owe any gift tax. lori died in 2016, and the face value of the whole life insurance policy of $2,000,000 was paid to the ilit. regarding this transfer, how much is included in lori’s gross estate at her death?