Say Mary would like to create a scholarship for $2,500 per year at ECU in her family's name. If the money market rate where the corpus will be placed to earn interest is 5.5% and if the inflation rate is 4.0%, how much will she have to donate?

the amount that she have to donate is $166,666.70

Explanation:

The computation of the amount that she have to donate is shown below:

Donation amount is

= Annual scholarship ÷ (interest rate - inflation rate)

= $2,500 ÷ (5.5% - 4.0%)

= $2,500 ÷ 1.5%

= $166,666.70

hence, the amount that she have to donate is $166,666.70

We simply applied the above formula so that the correct value could come

And, the same is to be considered

1   all nations face the problem of scarcity because there are limited resources and unlimited wants. nations do not have enough factors of production to produce everything that their population wants. entrepreneurial resources initiate businesses to make new goods and services; labor resources produce goods and services.

2 there are four factors of production: natural resources, labor resources, capital resources, and entrepreneurial resources. natural resources are raw materials from nature that are used to produce goods. trees, water, and grains are natural resources. some natural resources, such as wheat and cattle, are renewable

3 wants

things that you do not need to have in order to survive, but would like to have

needs

things that you must have in order to survive

goods

physical products

services

tasks that a business perform for customers

resources

items that people can use to make or obtain what they need or want

determine

to settle or decide by choice of alternatives or possiblities

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