An investor wants to find the duration of an 25 year 5% semiannual pay noncallable bond thats currently priced in the market at $351.26 to yield 15% using a 100 basis loint change in yield find the effective duration of this bond. The new price of the bond if the market interest rate decreases by 100 basis points (or 1%) is $
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