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kale and merricat are making decisions about their bank accounts. kale wants to deposit $200 as a principle amount, with an interest of 2% compounded quarterly. mericat wants to deposit $200 as the principle amount, with an interest of 4% compounded monthly.

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Answer: Merricat will have more money after the two years. To find this out you need to create two equations to represent their savings plans, using the interest function A= P(1+r/n)^nt where A represents the total amount of money after two years, P represents the amount of money originally invested, r is the interest rate, t is the number of time periods, n is the number of times interest is compounded per year, Then we substitute all of the values for what is represented and Kale's is A= 200(1+.02/12)^24=208.16 and Merricat's is A= 200(1+ .04/4)^8 = 216.57. This means that after 2 years Sherrie will have more money.

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Please explain you question, that what is it you want to know.
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