SOLUTION: Hillary is considering retiring a job as a stock broker. Part of her employee benefits include a pension that is based on the average of her last five years. Her salaries from the

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Question 1163522: Hillary is considering retiring a job as a stock broker. Part of her employee benefits include a pension that is based on the average of her last five years. Her salaries from the last five years were $77,455, $77,070, $75,947, $76,010, and $76,355. Her company will give her 2.4% of the average for each of the 27 years she worked. Calculate Hillary’s annual pension rounded to the nearest cent.
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Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
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Answer by ikleyn(52831) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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People from finance and with any initial / (primary) financial education should understand such problems BETTER than the Mathematics tutors.

Otherwise, for what did they get their financial knowledge ?


It is WE, the Math tutors, should come to YOU, finance students for help with such problems.

Fortunately, we are not obliged to solve such problems (and to ask for help from you . . . )