SOLUTION: How much would you have in 10 years if you purchased a $2,000.00 6-year savings certificate that paid 6% compounded annually?

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Question 347167: How much would you have in 10 years if you purchased a $2,000.00 6-year savings certificate that paid 6% compounded annually?
Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!




where is the interest rate per compounding period and is the number of compounding periods.

For your situation:



is the amount you have at the time the certificate matures at the end of 6 years. What happens between then and the end of 10 years is difficult to say. By the way, you get to do your own arithmetic.

John

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