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The Beaumont family is planning for retirement and wants to use a serial payment strategy to maintain their purchasing power.

If they calculate a first-year payment of 100,000, what is the critical step when using a financial calculator for this annuity due problem?

  1. Use the inflation rate as 'I/YR' and the nominal rate as the payment growth factor.
  2. Calculate the inflation-adjusted rate and set the calculator to 'BEGIN' mode.
  3. Use the nominal rate of return as 'I/YR' and ignore the inflation variable.
  4. Set the calculator to 'END' mode because inflation adjustments are calculated at the end of the year.

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