One year ago, the jenkins family fun center deposited $4,500 into an investment account for the purpose of buying new equipment four years from today. today, they are adding another $6,300 to this account. they plan on making a final deposit of $8,500 to the account next year. how much will be available when they are ready to buy the equipment, assuming they earn a rate of return of 8 percent rate of return?

Total= $25,891

Explanation:

Giving the following information:

One year ago, the Jenkins Family Fun Center deposited $4,500 into an investment account for the purpose of buying new equipment four years from today. Today, they are adding another $6,300 to this account. They plan on making a final deposit of $8,500 to the account next year.

We need to use the following formula:

FV= PV/(1+i)^n

FV= 4,500*(1.08)^5=6,612

FV= 6,300*(1.08)^4= 8,571

FV= 8,500*(1.08)^3= 10,708

Total= $25,891

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.