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Question from Allison, a parent:

Have $1000.00 in saving account compound annual interest rate 6%
please calculate what it is worth 3 years, 5 years and 10 years?

Hello Allison,

There are some good online calculators for just this sort of thing.
Check out these links,

http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/compound_interest_calculator.htm

http://math.about.com/library/blcompoundinterest.htm

Or, if you want to see the formula behind it, check out this link:

http://math2.org/math/general/interest.htm

Hope this helps,
Tyler

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