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A bank pays you 4.5% interest per year. In addition, you receive |100 as bonus at the end of the year (after the interest is paid). Find a recurrence for the amount of money after n years if you invest |2000.

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Let r=0.045 is an interest rate, S0=2000 the initial amount of money, Sn - the amount of money after n years, and b=100 is the annual bonus. Then we have a recurrent equation:

S_n=(1+r)S_{n-1}+b

S_n-S_{n-1}=r(S_{n-1}+b/r)

(S_{n}+b/r)-(S_{n-1}+b/r)=r(S_{n-1}+b/r)

S_{n}+b/r=(1+r)(S_{n-1}+b/r)

The last equation shows that the sequence S_{n}+b/r is a geometric progression, and we can write

S_{n}+b/r=(1+r)^n(S_{0}+b/r)

S_{n}=(1+r)^n(S_{0}+b/r)-b/r

S_{n}=(1+0.045)^n(2000+100/0.045)-100/0.045=4222.22\cdot1.045^n-2222.22

AnswerS_{n}=4222.22\cdot1.045^n-2222.22

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