SOLUTION: what interest rate compounded daily is required for a $22,000 investment to grow to $36,500 in 5 years?

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Question 391699: what interest rate compounded daily is required for a $22,000 investment to grow to $36,500 in 5 years?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Start with the compound interest formula


Plug in , , and .


Multiply and to get .


Divide both sides by .


Evaluate to get .


Take the 1825th root of both sides.


Take the 1825th root of to get .


Subtract 1 from both sides.


Combine like terms.


Multiply boths sides by to isolate "r".


Multiply and to get .


Rearrange the equation.


Round to the nearest ten-thousandth.


So the interest rate is 9.85% (multiply by 100 to convert to a percentage)


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