You won a $50 million dollar state lottery today! Upon winning, you were informed that you could choose to receive the prize money in one of the following two ways:
1) 25 payments of $2 million per year starting today
2) $30 million dollars paid today
Assume the market interest rate at this time is 7%. Which option should you take? In other words, which option has the higher total present value? What is the difference between the present values of the two options?