+1438 Debbie invests $8437 at 5 1/2% (five and a half which I made 5.5 in decimal form) interest for 6 months. Find the interest in this investment.
+36916 8437 x .055 x 1/2 = ...... .055 is 5 and 1/2 % in decimal form and the 1/2 is becuase it is only 6 months or 1/2 year
+36916 Welllllll.....you need to check your calculator...or your calculator skills ....haha 
+1438 for 1/2 I did .055 and .05 but I didn't do .5 which would be the right answer.
+1438 Thank you for sticking with me and my idiotness lol. IN THE END, WE TRIUMPHED!
+1438 It's a good thing I'm learning from the best. If I was learning from my old math teacher I would have been kicked out and called a ##### ##### ##### ###### #### #### ####. A bunch of names.
+118608 It is good that you finally settled down and allowed yourself to learn something from EP
BUT
Well before you accepted that EP was correct you were certainly not polite to him.
At that point in time there was no thank you from you for the time EP put in, even if an answer is wrong you should still say 'thanks for your time.'
AND
At that point in time you also took points off EP.
I believe you would treat your classroom teacher with considerably more disrespect than you treated EP.
So I do not think it would be inappropriate for your teacher to have punished you.
