If You Leave Your Money in the Bank at a Fixed

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Essay

If you leave your money in the bank at a fixed interest rate and allow for compounding of interest, show what will happen to your savings over time. Indicate with a graph whether there is a negative or positive slope between savings and time and what happens to the slope over time.

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Definitions:

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