I am a student in a community college. Our instructor Dr. Hong told us to solve the problem (listed below) by using simple Algebra. I cannot find the solution and several others I asked for help cannot either. Is there really a solution? Gosh this is far from simple ------------------------------- Given these two intial conditions, FV=P(1+rt) D=FV(1-dt) How do we arrive at the following equation. r=d/1-d