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A bond issue with a $100,000 par value, an 8% annual contract rate, with interest payable semiannually and a 10-year life means that the issuer must repay $100,000 at the end of 10 years plus make 20 payments of $4,000.Group startsTrue or False

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A bond issue with a 100,000parvalue,an8100,000 par value, an 8% annual contract rate, with interest payable semiannually and a 10-year life means that the issuer must repay 100,000 at the end of 10 years plus make 20 payments of $4,000.Group startsTrue or False

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False. The issuer must make 20 payments, but not of 4,000.Thepaymentiscalculatedbytakingtheannualcontractrate(84,000. The payment is calculated by taking the annual contract rate (8%) of the par value (100,000), which gives 8,000peryear.However,sincetheinterestispayablesemiannually,thisamountisdividedby2,resultinginpaymentsof8,000 per year. However, since the interest is payable semiannually, this amount is divided by 2, resulting in payments of 4,000 twice a year, not $4,000 twenty times a year.

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