Your grandmother deposited $10,000 in an investment account on the day you were born to help pay  the tuition when you go to college. If the account was  worth $50,000 seventeen years after she made the deposit, what was the rate of return on the account?

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Your grandmother deposited $10,000 in an investment account on the day you were born to help pay 
the tuition when you go to college. If the account was 
worth $50,000 seventeen years after she made the deposit, what was the rate of return on the account?

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