You Are Considering Two Insurance Settlement Offers

You are considering two insurance settlement offers. The first offer includes annual payments of $15,000, $10,000, and $5,000 over the next three years, respectively. The other offer is the
Payment of one lump sum amount today. You are trying to decide which offer to accept given the
Fact that your discount rate is 5%. What is the minimum amount that you will accept today if you are
To select the lump sum offer?

A) $26,357.33
B) $26,418.08
C) $27,545.45
D) $27,675.20
E) $27,878.78