Question 1206514
you make deposits at the end of each quarter of 407.
the annual interest rate is 6.52%
the interest rate, which is compounded quarterly, is equal to 6.52 / 4 = 1.63% per month.


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the inputs to that calculator will be:
present value = 0
future value = 0
interest rate per time period = 6.52 / 4 = 1.63%
number of time periods = 8 * 4 = 32
payments are 407 per time period and are made at the end of each time period.


you click on fv and the calculator tells you that the future value is equal to 16,920.49.
that's how much is in the account after 8 years.


here's what it looks like on that calculator.


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the values from that calculator are rounded to the nearest penny.
the unrounded value of that is 16,920.48801 that i got from my ti-ba-2 business analyst calculator.


i also used excel to provide the same analysis.
it provides the same results, when rounded to the nearest penny, as shown below.


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answers to your questions are:


how much will be in the account after 8
years? 


16920.49 will be in the account after 8 years.


How much interest did you earn in those 8
years?


interest you earned was how much was in the account after 8 years minus the sum of your payments for 32 quarters = 16920.49 minus 32 * 407 = 3896.49.