Lauren is the proud mother of a new baby girl and plans tosend her daughter to college 19 years from now. Lauren wants tomake a deposit each summer in a special account at her bank whichpays 8% (compounded annually) so that she will have enough moneyset aside that she can withdraw $21,000 at the beginning of eachyear to pay tuition, room and board, etc., for each year of herfour-year education. How much will Lauren have to deposit at theend of each year in order to have enough to pay for her daughter's education?

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 Lauren is the proud mother of a new baby girl and plans tosend her daughter to college 19 years from now. Lauren wants tomake a deposit each summer in a special account at her bank whichpays 8% (compounded annually) so that she will have enough moneyset aside that she can withdraw $21,000 at the beginning of eachyear to pay tuition, room and board, etc., for each year of herfour-year education. How much will Lauren have to deposit at theend of each year in order to have enough to pay for her daughter's education?

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L will send her daughter to college in 19 years. Her daughter will withdraw $21,000 at the beginning of each year for four years. Hence, she will withdraw from year 19 (at the end of year 19 that is beginning of next year).

Step 1: Calculation of present value of annual withdrawals (present value at time year 19):

Calculation of present value of annual withdrawals (present value at time year 19) using the present value of annuity due formula:

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This is the present value of four annual withdrawals by time year 19. Hence, this is the future value for year 0.

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