[Laura Ghezzi]

As stated in the syllabus, there is an extra credit activity on compound interest (an application of exponentials) on Wednesday, April 18 in class.

In preparation for the activity you need to watch the following video before coming to class:

The constant e and compound interest” from the MAT 1275 Student Video Resource page (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/math1275videolibrary/, under “Compound Interest”):

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra2/exponential-and-logarithmic-functions/e-and-the-natural-logarithm/v/e-through-compound-interest