Homework Help: Alg2

Posted by Rock on Monday, December 12, 2011 at 10:27pm.

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Suppose you deposit a principal amount of p dollars in a bank account that pays compound interest. If the annual interest rate r (expressed as a decimal) and the bank makes interest payments n times every year, the amount of money A you would have after t years is given by

Find the account balance after 20 years if you started with a deposit of $1000, and the bank was paying 4% interest compounded quarterly (4 times a year). Round your answer to the nearest cent.

I used the formula A(t)=P(1+ r/n)nt
and got 1010 and this is not the correct answer...

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