An investment offers a total return of 15 percent over the coming year. Janice Yellen thinks the total real return on this investment will be only 11 percent. What does Janice believe the inflation rate will be over the next year? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.) Inflation rate %

The inflation rate of return is 3.60%

Explanation:

As we know,

Inflation rate of return = { (1 + nominal rate of return) : (1 + real rate of return) } - 1

= { (1 + 15%) : (1+11%) } - 1

= (1.15) : (1.11) } - 1

= 1.0360 - 1

= 0.360 or 3.60%

The inflation rate of return shows a relationship between the nominal rate of return and the real rate of return. We simply divide the nominal rate of return by real rate of return