If a $5,000 Investment Grew to $6,450 in 30 Months

question 132

Short Answer

If a $5,000 investment grew to $6,450 in 30 months of monthly compounding, what effective rate of return was the investment earning?

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Definitions:

Short-term Memory Capacity

The amount of information that can be held in the short-term memory for a brief period, typically regarded as lasting 20 to 30 seconds.

Chunking

A cognitive strategy for organizing information into meaningful groups or chunks to enhance memory and recall.

Parallel Search

A search for information in which several stores or slots of information are simultaneously examined to match to the target.

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember items at the beginning of a list better than those in the middle or end.