Jade invested $13,500 at 5.2% interest, compounded semiannually, and she wants to know how much her investment will be worth in 8 years
part 1:  what is the periodic interest rate of jade investmentpart 2: how many compounding periods does jades investment offer in a year? how about in 8 years? 

5.2% interest, compounded semiannually means 
2.6% each 6 months because semi-annual is twice per year. 
1 @ time zero = 1.026 at 6 months and (1.026)² in a year = 1.052676 or 5.2676% APR 
8 years is 16 periods (1.026)^16 
13500 time zero
13851 6m 1period 1/2 year
14211.1312m2periods 1 year 
14580.62 18m3periods
14959.71 24m4p2y 
15348.6630m5p
15747.73 36m6p3y 
16157.17 42m7p
16577.26 48m8p4y 
17008.27 54m9p
17450.48 60m 10p5y 
17904.19 66m11p
18369.70 72m12p6y 
18847.31 78m13p
19337.34 84m14p7y 
19840.11 90m 15p
$20355.96 96m16p8yrs = $13,500 * (1.026)^16 

From this set of information, you should be able to answer the three parts. 
There are math formulas available in books about it. 

Using the APR, you can get the same answer 
(1.052676)^8

answer:   segregation violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, which holds that no state can “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

details/explanation:

brown v. board of education of topeka, decided by the us supreme court in 1954, ruled that all americans are entitled to the same civil liberties and protections in regard to access to education. until that decision, it was legal to segregate schools according to race, so that black students could not attend the same schools as white students.   an older supreme court decision, plessy v. ferguson (1896), had said that separate, segregated public facilities were acceptable as long as the facilities offered were equal in quality.   in the case of brown v. board of education, that standard was challenged and defeated.   segregation was shown to create inequality, and the supreme court unanimously ruled segregation to be unconstitutional.

the ruling was important in advancing civil rights because it affirmed that the 14th amendment applies to all rights and privileges of citizens, including access to   education.   this was being violated by states whose laws supported the segregation of schools.   section 1 of the 14th amendment reads as follows:

all persons born or naturalized in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the united states and of the state wherein they reside. no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the united states; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

It is 198,87032,750 + 375 = 33145 so, we take the 6% and we make it a decimal (0.6) and multiply that, then that is your answer