You are going to save money for your son’s education. You have decided to place $786 every half year at the end of the period into a saving account earning 5.15 percent per year, compounded semi-annually for the next 13 years. How much money will be in the account at the end of that time period?
We can use the future value of annuity formula to find the answer:
Where,
FVA = Future Value of Annuity
A = Annuity or payment
i = rate of interest
n = number of years
a = number of payments in a year
Substituting the values, we get:
Therefore, at the end of time period there will $41,057.07 in the account.
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