To prevent him from taking a job elsewhere, the University of Tennessee offers head coach Josh Heupel a new contract that makes annual, end-of-year payments. His first year’s salary will be $5 million. To keep up with market conditions, his annual salary will increase by 2% per year in subsequent years. After receiving the 20th of these growing payments, he will retire and be paid a constant year-end amount of $1 million per year for 30 additional years. If the appropriate discount rate is 10%, what is the present value of this new contract?

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To prevent him from taking a job elsewhere, the University of Tennessee offers head coach
Josh Heupel a new contract that makes annual, end-of-year payments. His first year’s salary
will be $5 million. To keep up with market conditions, his annual salary will increase by 2%
per year in subsequent years. After receiving the 20th of these growing payments, he will
retire and be paid a constant year-end amount of $1 million per year for 30 additional years.
If the appropriate discount rate is 10%, what is the present value of this new contract? 

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