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Here, we're told that we're going to invest $5 ,000 into an account for 10 years and an interest rate of 6 .5 .065.
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So that's r.
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This is my time.
00:21
And then $5 ,000 is the principle.
00:24
We want to compute what we're going to have in those 10 years in a different number of different ways.
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So for part a, we're going to say semi -annually.
00:34
That means twice per year.
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So we're going to use this equation where n is the number of times it's compounded per year.
00:41
So we're just going to do 5 ,000 times 1 plus r, which is 0 .065, divided by n, we just said as 2, to the n times 10.
00:54
And if i plug that in my calculator, i'm going to get $9 ,479 .19.
01:04
For part b, i'm just going to do the exact same thing, except it's compounded quarterly, meaning n equals 4.
01:11
So i'm just going to plug in 4 instead of 2 here.
01:14
Sorry, i meant to write that is a 2, not an n, that's 2.
01:18
But now it's a 4 because we're plugging n equals 4.
01:21
So again, i'm going to use my calculator...