You want to start a scholarship fund at your alma mater with giving one $10,000 scholarship annually  beginning one year from now. And you have at most  $150,000 to start the fund. You also want the scholarship to be given out indefinitely. Assuming an annual interest rate of 8% (compounded continuously , do you have enough money for the scholarship fund?

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.You want to start a scholarship fund at your alma mater with giving one

$10,000 scholarship annually  beginning one year from now. And you have at most 

$150,000 to start the fund. You also want the scholarship to be given out indefinitely. Assuming

an annual interest rate of 8% (compounded continuously , do you have enough money for the

scholarship fund?

15%4

(Hint: 1. Derive the formula of the present value of a perpetuity .2. Find the present value.)

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