Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Millionaire's Son Wins $107 Million Jackpot - Sacramento News Story - KCRA Sacramento
Read page 810-811 in your book for an explanation of how annuities work.
Let's assume this guy chose the annuity instead of the lump sum. Based on the 107 million dollars he was promised, what would be this guy's annual payments (before taxes) be if he were to receive equal payments for 25 year installments rather than a lump sum?
Based on ordinary annuity principles, what would be the present value of the annuity after one payment was made?
Let's assume the in the annuity situation, instead of the lotto administration buying an annuity, the State buys U.S. securities paying an interest rate 7%. How much would the winner have received in cash instead of the original $107 million jackpot?
Discrete Math Borrowing Assignment
Please use the following link to complete the assignment. This assignment should be done on Googledocs with a partner. Just make statements about what you did and found out for each number in the assignment. Title the borrowing document: Name Borrowing Assignment
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BzAgKqsf1_OcODg0ODNmYmYtMTQ2My00MzUzLTljYzEtNTYwNDY4OGEwZGY3&hl=en_US
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Home Mortgage Assignment
Visit the link below for questions. Create your own googledoc titled Name Home Mortgage Assignment and share with paideiamath. Good Luck.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SF_4r8ipqjXlOs-3di8Cy3vNcXhHxNdPR4ldFEG9JF0/edit?hl=en_US
Monday, September 26, 2011
Scribe Post - 22.1-22.4
22.1
Bonds:
- Bonds always pay simple interest! A=P(1-rt)
- The Principal plus Interest is paid at the end of the maturity of the bond
*All risk goes to the buyer
- Inflation? Will the bond issuer be able to pay?
Need help understanding bonds? Check out this video!!
Add-On Loans:
- What is an Add-On loan?
An Add-On loan is a loan in which you, the borrower, pays back the Principal amount plus the Interest over a fixed period of time.
- Always use Simple Interest when working with add on loans!
- Formula for Add on Loans:
d = P(1+rt)/n
d = payment per interval
Discounted Loans:
- What is a Discounted loan?
A Discounted loan is a loan in which you, the borrower, pay interest upfront, and then eventually pay back the principal over time. In other words, I may want to borrow $100 with 6% interest; the lender would only hand me $94, which I would pay back over time ($94 = 6% of $100). Since I paid my interest up front ($6) I only receive the remaining principal ($94).
- Always use Simple Interest when working with Discounted Loans!
- To find the discounted loan:
1) find interest added onto original Principal
2) subtract interest from original Principal
= this will give you how much you are "handed" the day you get the loan
3) then divide this number by the number of payments you will be making
22.2 - 22.3
Credit Card Payments:
- Always use Compound Interest when working with Credit Card Payments
A = (P+i)^n
- Also know Savings Formula when working with Credit Card Payments
A = d[((1+i)^n-1) / n]
22.4
Amortizing:
- Formula:
A = d[ (1-(1+i)^-n) / n]
This formula is used when you need to find out how much to pay at each interval for a house that costs $x with y% interest over z years.
How to find APY:
- APY = i(n)
i = rate per compounding period
n = number of times compounded
Things to know:
- The definition of "bond"
- Simple Interest Formula & how and where to apply it
- Compound Interest formula & how and where to apply it
- The definition of "Add-On loan"
- The definition of "Discounted loan"
- The formula for amortizing (loan on a house)
- How to find APY
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
How To Solve For d, Payments Per Interval in Loan Amortization
If we replace (P), the principal, on a loan with (A), the present value of an annuity or amount being amortized, then we know
A(1+i)^n = d [((1+i)^n - 1)/i] which after algebra reflects A = d[(1-(1+i)^-n)/i]
If you continue with algebra operations to solve for d using the above equation you get
d = Ai/(1-(1+i)^-n)
Monday, September 19, 2011
Discounted Loan help
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Test Aftermath Instructions
(1 point)
1. Offer specific examples of some areas you did well on the test (use math terms to describe, not numbers of problems from the test.)
(2 point)
2. Offer specific examples of some areas you did poorly on the test (use math terms to describe, not numbers of problems from the test.) Tell specifics about the problem that caught you up...(wording, computation, comprehension, etc.)
(3 points)
3. Select one problem you got wrong. Show me that you understand the problem by doing another problem like it correctly. This can be one problem from the test, as long as I did not write the answer during corrections. Please avoid correcting small errors.
(3 points)
4. Select a topic that was NOT covered on the test, but was covered in class or the book. Show me you understand it by working a pr
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Gil CPI Review
This is useful when trying to find a different part of the equation.

Lets say that you want to sell it now, and the year is 2011. You want to know how much the tv would be worth now had you bought in 2011. Basically, you want to know how much money you really spent on it, by seeing how much money you spent in constant dollars.
So why not use Compound interest to find this?
The answer is, because compound interest is for constant growth, whereas inflation isn't constant. CPI gives nominal value rather than assuming.
I Choose You, Miranda (next scribe)!!!!
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Eli: 21.9 CPI
Inflation fluctuates. It is very unstable, and changes very frequently. The government came up with a system to calculate the changes in value, called the CPI (consumer price index.) This is to figure out the cost of the necessities of living – food, clothes, cars, electronics, etc. This system allows us to compare dollars from one year to another, in a way that shows us the constant dollar. Ten dollars now does not mean the same exact thing as 5 dollars 10 years ago. What we learned in class is to calculate what an item or amount of money is worth in a certain number of years in today’s worth. The CPI allows us to calculate what values were in the past.
Cost Year A/Cost Year B = CPI Year A/CPI Year B. This is long version of the equation. The shorter version that most people use, and is most useful is this:
Recent Dollars = Old Dollars (CPI of recent year/CPI of old year)
The government has calculated the CPI rates for us, and we can see that in the early 1900s, the CPI was in the tens, and the CPI today is about 218. There was a dramatic increase.
The government bureau that created all of these numbers is the Labor Statistics Bureau.
Below is the table showing the CPI that the LSB came up with:
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