Answer:
a) $3480
b) $4036.8
Step-by-step explanation:
The compound interest formula is given by:

Where A(t) is the amount of money after t years, P is the principal(the initial sum of money), r is the interest rate(as a decimal value), n is the number of times that interest is compounded per year and t is the time in years for which the money is invested or borrowed.
Suppose that $3000 is placed in an account that pays 16% interest compounded each year.
This means, respectively, that 
So



(a) Find the amount in the account at the end of 1 year.
This is A(1).


(b) Find the amount in the account at the end of 2 years.
This is A(2).

We are given

we can use distribute property
Distributive property:

so, we can write it as


now, we can multiply terms
and we get
..............Answer
The answer is x^4-6x^3+12x^2-28/x^2
If we are talking about whole numbers, the only number in between 1 and 3 is 2 but if we are talking about numbers in general, there are an infinite amount of numbers (for example, 1.1, 1.12, 1.004, and 1.80543285 are all in between 1 and 3).