1. The same amount of money was invested in each of two different investments on January 1,...

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1. The same amount of money was invested in each of two different investments on January 1, 2015. Investment A increased by 2.5% in 2015, 3% in 2016, and 8.4% in 2017. Investment B increased by the same amount, r %, in each of the 3 years and was worth the same as investment A at the end of the 3-year period. Determine the value of r.
2. If you increase the compound interest rate for an investment by 20%, will the future value increase by 20%?
Compound Interest
Compound interest (or compounding interest) is interest calculated on the initial principal, which also includes all of the accumulated interest from previous periods on a deposit or loan. Thought to have originated in 17th century Italy, compound...
Future Value
Future value (FV) is the value of a current asset at a future date based on an assumed rate of growth. The future value (FV) is important to investors and financial planners as they use it to estimate how much an investment made today will be worth...
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Finite Mathematics and Its Applications

ISBN: 978-0134768632

12th edition

Authors: Larry J. Goldstein, David I. Schneider, Martha J. Siegel, Steven Hair

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