Tara Cutler is newly married and preparing a surprise gift of a trip to Europe for her husband on their tenth anniversary. Tara plans to invest $5,000 per year until that anniversary and to make her first $5,000 investment on their first anniversary.
If she earns an 8 percent rate on her investments, how much will she have saved for their trip if the interest is compounded in each of the following ways?
a. annually
b. quarterly
c. monthly.