Rico’s backpack weighed 3.6 pounds. Then he added his school books which weighed an additional 24.76 pounds. How much did Rico’s
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Step-by-step explanation:
Since interest is compounded semi-annually (half a year or 6 months), in a spawn of 2 years, the interest will have been compounded 4 times. As given in the problem, each time the interest is compounded, the new balance will be 107% or 1.07 times the amount of the old balance.
Therefore, we can set up the following equation to find the new balance after 2 years: