Simple and Compounding Interest

If you deposit $$125$ in an account that pays $10\%$ interest annually and you don't touch it for $3$ years, what is the interest earned on your initial deposit after $3$ years?

Use the Simple Method of compound interest to solve.

$2.$ Now use the formula for compounding interest to determine the increase in value of your $$125$ deposit after $3$ years.

$\backslash$table$[[$Year $1],[$Amount in the Bank,$$125],[$Interest Rate,$10\%],[$Total$,],[$Year $2],[$Amount$,],[$Interest Rate,$10\%],[$Total$,],[$Year $3],[$Amount$,],[$Interest Rate,$10\%],[$Total$,]]$

$3.$What do you notice about the totals? Are they the same?