You Invest $1,000 in an Account Paying 5% Simple Interest

question 183

Multiple Choice

You invest $1,000 in an account paying 5% simple interest. You do not add nor withdraw any funds from this account. Every year, your account balance will:

• A) Remain constant.
• B) Increase at an increasing rate.
• C) Increase at a constant rate.
• D) Increase at a decreasing rate.
• E) Increase by a constant amount.

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Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values from the mean.

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