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- December 15, 2014 at 5:04 pm #220659
Sir can you please explain me this question and show me its working please?
Q)If a single sum of $12,000 is invested at 8% per annum with interest compounded quarterly, what is the amount to which the principal will have grown by the end of year three?(approximately)
December 16, 2014 at 9:21 am #220690The interest is 8/4 = 2% every 3 months.
Three years is 12 quarters.
So it will have grown to 12,000 x 1.02^12
October 25, 2015 at 2:59 pm #278871AnonymousInactive- Topics: 0
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Hi can anyone help me to do this sum pls
if a single sum of $12000 is invested at 8% per annum with interest compounded quarterly, what is the amount to which the principal will have grown by the end of the year 3.
thanks
October 25, 2015 at 6:34 pm #278908If you ask in the Ask the Tutor Forum, then it is me who will answer (not ‘anyone’ !!!) 🙂
And why on earth have you asked exactly the same question as the first one in this thread – which I have already answered above ???!!!!!!
If interest is quarterly, then the interest is 2% each quarter.
So after 12 quarters (3 years x 4 quarters) it will have grown to 12000 x (1.02^12).
(I do suggest that you watch our free lectures – they are a complete course covering everything you need to be able to pass F2 well.)
November 15, 2022 at 2:14 pm #671503why do we follow the (1+Annual rate)^(1/no. of periods) – 1 formula over here?
November 16, 2022 at 8:47 am #671578But we don’t do as you have written. We do it as explained in my previous reply.
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