The new CEO of a high-tech incubator company wants to entice venture capitalists by promising a growth rate of 40% per year for at least 3 years. Therefore, the company’s MARR was set at 40%. If this ROR was actually realized, but the CEO did not account for the observed 8% per year inflation rate, what was the real growth rate?

What will be an ideal response?


0.40 = i + 0.08 + (i)(0.08)
1.08i = 0.32
i = 0.296 (29.6% per year)

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