Saving $100 per month at 12% interest over 20 years. How would I write the formula?
Well it depends when the money goes into the bank
Say it goes in at the end of each month. And the interest is really paid monthly.
Then you would be getting 1% interest per month for 20*12 = 240 months
This is the future value of an ordinary annuity problem.
100×(((1+0.01)240−1)0.01)=98925.5365387360044745
So you would have $98,925.54
Well it depends when the money goes into the bank
Say it goes in at the end of each month. And the interest is really paid monthly.
Then you would be getting 1% interest per month for 20*12 = 240 months
This is the future value of an ordinary annuity problem.
100×(((1+0.01)240−1)0.01)=98925.5365387360044745
So you would have $98,925.54