You put 500 dollars into your savings account. Your bank account offers a yearly interest rate of 3.5% and you leave the money in your account for 5 years. How much interest did you earn?

87.5

Step-by-step explanation:

87.5 because if your earning a 3.5% of the $500 then that means you're earning 17.5 dollars.in an year therefore in five years you multiply the 17.5 x 5 years which will give you at 87.5 so we've had in total you can get to 587.5 dollars

Listen up:

To find the decimal equivalent of any fraction, simply divide the numerator(top) by the denominator(bottom).

In his case, divide 9 by 100

ANSWER .09

Also some place value lessons:

.1 is in the tenths place
.01 is in the hundredths
.001 is in the thousandths

Hope this helps!