MATH201 – College Mathematics – Quantitative Reasoning
Week 3– It’s All About the Benjamins Assignment
This Assessment is part of the Assignments category, worth 25% of your grade.
Deadline
Due by the end of Week 3 at 11:59 pm, ET.
Completing this Assessment will help you to meet the following:
Course Outcome
· Draw conclusions and make decisions through the application and analysis of mathematical models utilizing Microsoft Excel software.
Directions
You and your co-worker, Benjamin, both just turned 22 and are having dinner to celebrate. You begin talking about saving for retirement. You and Benjamin make a friendly bet to see who will have more money in their retirement account at age 65!
Be sure to use the provided Excel template to calculate who will win the bet using the information you are given in the template and what you learned so far in this course. Make sure you comply with the word count requirements and there are no grammar, punctuation, or spelling errors in your writing.
It’s All About the Benjamins!
This assignment focuses on investing and will allow you to calculate compound interest and analyze data to make decisions. You will use the Excel template provided in Blackboard to complete the following:
1. Download the Excel file from your course named: “Assignment 1 – It's All About the Benjamins.xlsx”
2. Save it to your computer and name it: MATH201 – It's All About the Benjamins Assignment – Your Name.
3. Complete the work in the Excel file. Make sure you save your work.
4. Upload the Excel file to the proper dropbox in Blackboard.