Five years ago, you entered into a 10-year investment with a simple interest of 4% per annum and a one-time principal P (in pesos) paid at the start of the investment. Today, your bank announced that it will impose a new interest rate of 4.5% compounded quarterly. If three years from now the value of your investment is 150,000 pesos, find an expression for P and use the expression to approxi

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Five years ago, you entered into a 10-year investment with a simple interest of 4% per annum and a one-time principal P (in pesos) paid at the start of the investment. Today, your bank announced that it will impose a new interest rate of 4.5% compounded quarterly. If three years from now the value of your investment is 150,000 pesos, find an expression for P and use the expression to approximate P. 

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