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The interest compounded annually on a certain sum of money is $41.60 a [#permalink] ### Show Tags 23 Apr 2010, 08:29 8 00:00 Difficulty: (N/A) Question Stats: 58% (05:43) correct 42% (06:14) wrong based on 40 sessions ### HideShow timer Statistics The interest compounded annually on a certain sum of money is$41.60 after two years. The simple interest on the same amount of money after two years would be $40.00. Find the amount invested if the interest rate would be the same in each investment. Correct Answer:$250

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23 Apr 2010, 08:58
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The interest compounded annually on a certain sum of money is $41.60 after two years. The simple interest on the same amount of money after two years would be$40.00. Find the amount invested if the interest rate would be the same in each investment.

Correct Answer: $250 Can anybody suggest a step-by-step approach? Suppose interest rate is x% .....take $$\frac{x}{100} = y$$ now for Compound interest Amount = $$P(1+\frac{x}{100})^2 = P(1+y)^2$$ Interest = Amount - principal = $$P*(1+y)^2-P = P*(1+y^2+2y-1)$$ = $$P*y^2 + 2Py = 41.6$$ -----------1 Now Simple interest = $$P*\frac{x}{100} *2 = 2Py = 40$$------------------------2 Now subtract 2nd equation from 1 you will get $$P*y^2 = 1.6$$ ------------3 since $$2Py=40 => Py=20$$ and $$P^2*Y^2 = 20*20$$----------4 Divide 4 by 3 you will get P = 250 _________________ Fight for your dreams :For all those who fear from Verbal- lets give it a fight Money Saved is the Money Earned Jo Bole So Nihaal , Sat Shri Akaal Support GMAT Club by putting a GMAT Club badge on your blog/Facebook GMAT Club Premium Membership - big benefits and savings Gmat test review : http://gmatclub.com/forum/670-to-710-a-long-journey-without-destination-still-happy-141642.html Intern Joined: 12 Oct 2009 Posts: 24 Location: I see you Re: The interest compounded annually on a certain sum of money is$41.60 a  [#permalink]

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28 Apr 2010, 06:30
wow, that's a tough solution, is there an easier way to do this?.... anyone.
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05 May 2011, 11:28
Let X be the investment amount and x the interest rate

We have x ( (1+x/100)^2 - 1) = 41.6 for the compound investment and 2 * X * x/100 =40 for the simple interest

Replace x/100 by 20/X in the compound equation to get:

(20 + X)^2 / X - X = 41.6, so (20+X)^2 - X^2= 41.6 X. Distribute and simplify to get 1.6 X = 400 so X equals 4000/16 or 250$Hope this is helpful. _________________ http://www.hannibalprep.com Director Joined: 23 Apr 2010 Posts: 547 Re: The interest compounded annually on a certain sum of money is$41.60 a  [#permalink]

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19 Sep 2011, 00:49
Is this type of questions tested on the GMAT?
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19 Sep 2011, 01:52
To read up some theory of simple and compound interest, check out: http://www.veritasprep.com/blog/2011/03 ... imple-one/
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19 Sep 2011, 02:11
And one more:

In your computations you work with fractions rather than with decimal numbers. Is there some trick to it or do you simply convert decimals to fractions in your head?

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19 Sep 2011, 02:42
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And one more:

In your computations you work with fractions rather than with decimal numbers. Is there some trick to it or do you simply convert decimals to fractions in your head?

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Yeah, I almost never work with decimals. I might just convert my answer to decimal form at the end. Working with fractions will almost always cut down the amount of work you will need to do. It's far more intuitive when you start using it regularly. Most decimals that you come across can be converted to fractions in your head e.g. 0.01 = 1/100, 4.5 is half of 9 so 9/2 etc
I do remember some conversions e.g.
1/8 = 12.5% or .125
1/9 = 11.11% or .1111
1/11 = 9.09% or .0909
1/6 = 16.66% or .1666
etc
Check out this post for some commonly used fraction-decimal-percent conversions: http://www.veritasprep.com/blog/2011/02 ... rcentages/
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05 Nov 2014, 07:56
Is this a 700 level question?
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