Find the simply interest earned on an investment of $15,000 at a rate of 5.25% for two years.

Ill show you step by step.

This is what the equation should look like 

Y=Initial value(1+/- Increasing or Decreasing value)^2 Which stands for time



So you need to do 1.0525 to the 2nd power Which equals 1.10775625

So now you need to do 15,000(1.10775625)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Which equals 16616 rounding to the nearest Ones

16616.3 rounding to the nearest tenth

It is the top one. the answer is -7. that is smallest