Although appealing to more refined tastes, art as a collectible has not always performed so profitably. During 2015, an auction house sold a painting for a price of $1,010,000. Unfortunately for the previous owner, he had purchased it three years earlier at a price of $1,590,000. What was his annual rate of return on this painting? (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Annual rate of return %

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Although appealing to more refined tastes, art as a collectible has not always performed
so profitably. During 2015, an auction house sold a painting for a price of $1,010,000.
Unfortunately for the previous owner, he had purchased it three years earlier at a price
of $1,590,000.
What was his annual rate of return on this painting? (A negative answer should be
indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your
answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
Annual rate of
return
%
Transcribed Image Text:Although appealing to more refined tastes, art as a collectible has not always performed so profitably. During 2015, an auction house sold a painting for a price of $1,010,000. Unfortunately for the previous owner, he had purchased it three years earlier at a price of $1,590,000. What was his annual rate of return on this painting? (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Annual rate of return %
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