seCtIon I • Compound Interest—the tIme Value of money 353
solve the following exercises and word problems by using the compound interest
formula.
Principal
Time Period
(years)
Nominal
Rate (%)
Interest
Compounded
Compound
Amount
Compound
Interest
35. $5,000
4.2 semiannually $5,904.40 $904.40
39. Gabriel Hopen, a 32-year-old commercial artist, has just signed a contract with an advertising
agency. Gabriel’s starting salary is
. The agency has agreed to increase his salary
by
annually. How much will Gabriel’s salary be after 5 years? Round to the nearest
wholedollar.
40. The FernRod Motorcycle Company invested
at
compounded monthly to be used
for the expansion of their manufacturing facilities. How much money will be available for the
project in
years?
Complete worked-out solutions for
Exercises 35–38 appear in Appendix B.
busInEss DECIsIon: DAILy ComPounDIng
41. As an incentive to attract savings deposits, most financial institutions today offer daily and even
continuous compounding. This means that savings, or passbook, accounts, as well as CDs,
earn interest compounded each day or even more frequently, such as every hour or even every
minute. (Continuous compounding, in which compounding occurs every instant, involves a
different formula that is derived from the formula we’ve been using.) Let’s take a look at daily
compounding.
To calculate the compound amount,
, of an investment with daily compounding, use the
compound interest formula modified as follows:
•
ate per period (daily) =
(nominal interest rate,
, divided by
)
• Number of periods (days),
,
number of days of the investment.
=P
1+i
Calculator Sequence: 1 i 365 n P A
a. On April 19, Thomas Ash deposited
in a passbook savings account at
interest
compounded daily. What is the compound amount of his account on August 5?
b. Using daily compounding, recalculate the compound amount for each of the three certificates
of deposit in Exercise 32.
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