A wealthy art collector has decided to endow her favorite art museum by establishing funds for an endowment which would provide the museum with $1,000,000 per year for acquisitions into perpetuity. The art collector will give the endowment upon her fiftieth birthday 10 years from today. She plans to accumulate the endowment by making annual end-of-year deposits into an account. The rate of interest is expected to be 6 percent in all future periods. How much must the art collector deposit each year to accumulate to the required amount?

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We need to find the annual deposits required to accumulate a future sum of $1,000,000 in perpetuity. This can be done using the perpetuity formula:

FV = PMT / r

where FV is the future value, PMT is the annual payment, and r is the interest rate.

Substituting the given values, we get:

1,000,000 = PMT / 0.06

PMT = 1,000,000 * 0.06

PMT = 60,000

This means that the art collector needs to make annual deposits of $60,000 at the end of each year to accumulate a future sum of $1,000,000 in perpetuity. However, these payments will be made starting 10 years from now. So, we need to find the present value of the required annual payments.

Using the present value formula:

PV = PMT * [(1 - (1 + r)^-n) / r]

where PV is the present value, PMT is the annual payment, r is the interest rate, and n is the number of periods.

Substituting the given values, we get:

PV = 60,000 * [(1 - (1 + 0.06)^-10) / 0.06]

PV = $751,533.94

Therefore, the art collector needs to deposit $751,533.94 each year for the next 10 years to accumulate a future sum of $1,000,000 in perpetuity. The closest option to this answer is C, $1,264,466, which could be due to rounding of the calculations.

A Wealthy Art Collector Has Decided to Endow Her Favorite