Engineering Economy 7th Edition by Leland Blank ,Anthony Tarquin

Exercise 54

To provide infrastructure in the outlying areas of Morgantown, West Virginia, the city council issued 30-year bonds with a face value of $25 million. The bond coupon rate was set at 5% per year, payable semiannually. Because the market interest rate increased immediately before the bonds were sold, the city received only $23.5 million from the bond sale. What was the semiannual interest rate when the bonds were sold