SOLUTION: if you deposit $2500 for 3 years at a 5.7% interest compounded quarterly, how much money will there be in the acount?

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Question 551881: if you deposit $2500 for 3 years at a 5.7% interest compounded quarterly, how much money will there be in the acount?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Start with the compound interest formula


Plug in , (the decimal equivalent of 5.7%), and .


Evaluate to get


Add to to get


Multiply and to get .


Evaluate to get .


Multiply and to get .


Round to the nearest hundredth (ie to the nearest penny).


So there will be $2,962.65 in the acount

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