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    A chartered bank offers a five-year Escalator Guaranteed Investment Certificate.In successive years it pays annual interest rates of 4%, 4.5%, 5%, 5.5%, and 6%, respectively, compounded at the end of each year. The bank also offers regular five-year GICs paying a fixed rate of 5% compounded annually. Calculate and compare the maturity values of $1000 invested in each type of GIC. (Note that 5% is the average of the five successive one-year rates paid on the Escalator GIC.)

    1276.28

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    1234

    Incorrect Answer

    1785

    Incorrect Answer

    1545

    Incorrect Answer
    Explanation:

    FV = $1000(1.04)(1.045)(1.05)(1.055)(1.06) = $1276.14

     the maturity value of the regular GIC is

     FV = $ 1000 x (1.05)5

    =  $1276.28

    Hence, option 1 is the correct answer.


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