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Math in Your Life: Between the Numbers
Government loans. In Example 3 we assumed an interest rate of
Example 3 Paying Off a Student Loan
Assume that you just graduated from college with
*The numbers in this example are based on a real case in which a friend asked me what the best way would be to pay off his
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