snoozin' in a cruise ship
Since today is July 14, 2013, five years ago today it was July 14, 2008.
Five years earlier that the date in question. I leave the simple calculation to the student.
money
Assuming all options are equally risky, you would prefer option b, which is receiving $15,000 five years from today. This is because the present value of $15,000 in five years, discounted at a 9 percent rate of return, is greater than the present value of receiving $5,000 today or receiving $1,000 per year for 15 years.
It was your birthday.
A customer buys 17.01 in gas and requests two five dollar [$5] lottery tickets and six one dollar [$1] lottery ticket. How much change would he receive from a one hundred dollar [$100] bill?
FHN
A century is 100 years so five centuries would be 500 years. Five centuries would be longer than 200 years.
The price has just about doubled in the past five years.
To find the date five weeks ago, you would subtract 35 days from today's date. If today is October 7, 2023, then five weeks ago would be September 2, 2023.
5
Quite a bit less then today.