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PSAT 1.2 Math Diagnostic. After two years, how much money will Eduardo have?
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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour
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brought to you by investment funds We love them and
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we're sure the feeling is mutual All right eduardo has
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eighty five hundred bucks to invest invest seventy five percent
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of his money and fund a and twenty five percent
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was money in fund be fund a earns three point
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five percent interest annually while fund be earns four point
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two percent interest annually after two years How much money
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will eduardo have and hear the potential Answer what I
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kind of heard that interest income is your money So
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assuming eduardo has left his investment earnings untouched hasn't blown
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it all on star wars memorabilia We need to decide
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how much dough he'll have in his two funds by
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the end of two years Well eduardo would much rather
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be playing with his stormtrooper action figures than doing the
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math themselves so well the onus is on us Well
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it's a slow day we don't have much else going
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on First things first How much is eduardo putting into
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each fun Well we're told he has eighty five hundred
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bucks total and we put seventy five per cent of
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that money to fund A twenty five percent into fund
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be so here we just have a couple of simple
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multiplication problems We can convert our percentages two decimals to
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make them easier to work with So seventy five percent
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becomes point seven five and twenty five percent becomes point
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two five then we multiply each by the eighty five
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hundred bucks Well looks like he put six thousand three
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or seventy five dollars into fund a and two thousand
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one hundred twenty five dollars into fund Be way can
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add those two together to double check our work if
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we're worried And yet six three seven five plus two
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one to five equals eighty five hundred So we're golden
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now for each fund we need to determine the interest
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Fortunately there's an app for that they're well formula Anyway
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i equals p arty that's interest equals the principal multiplied
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by the rate multiplied by the time now he just
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plug in chuck so for fun day our interest will
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equal six thousand three hundred seventy five our principal times
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A raid of three point five percent which is point
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o three five and decimal form Don't forget that o
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times to the number Of years eduardo's been accumulating interest
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on his initial investment way come up with four hundred
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forty six dollars and twenty five cents in interest accrued
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Add that to the original six thousand three hundred seventy
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five investment and fund a is now worth six thousand
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eight hundred twenty one dollars and twenty five cents Now
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the same spiel for fun be the principal is two
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thousand one hundred twenty five bucks times a rate of
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four point two percent or point zero or two times
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to well we get one hundred seventy eight bucks and
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fifty cents and interest accrued lost The two thousand one
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hundred twenty five dollar investment and fund b is now
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worth two thousand three hundred three dollars and fifty cents
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Who it's grand total time Can we get a drum
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roll please Adding together the six thousand eight hundred twenty
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one point twenty five from fund eh and the two
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thousand three hundred three point fifty from fund be waken
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See that eduardo's initial investment of eighty five hundred dollars
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has magically in mystically turned into nine thousand one hundred
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twenty four dollars seventy five cents whom that'll buy you
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a ton of nab Billion nerve knockers So yeah answer
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C is the one we want at ease Eduardo Good
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luck bringing down the galactic empire That extra six hundred 00:03:17.613 --> [endTime] bucks and change really help
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