At every age, from 18 to 68 in our ______ set, people vastly underestimated how much change they would experience over the next 10 years. We call this the “end of history” illusion. To give you an idea of the magnitude of this effect, you can connect these two lines, and what you see here is that 18-year-olds anticipate changing only as much as 50-year-olds actually do.
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- You have $5,000 you want to invest for the next 45 years. You are offered an investment plan that will pay you 6 percent per year for the next 15 years and 10 percent per year for the last 30 years. How much will you have at the end of the 45 years? How much will you have if the investment plan pays you 10 percent per year for the first 15 years and 6 percent per year for the next 30 years?
- You would like to buy a new automobile, and the car costs $68,500. If you can earn 9 percent, how much $____do you have to invest today to buy the car in two years?(retain 2 decimals)
- "What do you suggest I write about, then, to stand a chance next year" "It isn’t so much ______ you write as the way ______ you write it." A: what... that B: what... which C: what... how D: which... that
- By this time next year, you ________(learn) much more English.
- By credit card. A: What size are you? B: How would you like to pay? C: How much is it? D: Can you discount it?