jim took out a loan for $500. the rate is %8, how much does jim owe in interest if he pays it back in 4 1/2 years ?

i have no clue what you just said. write a question in english?

35/2 is it i think maybe

8.75

how-to:

first, we need to find what we have to work with.

since i know that we have 7 (years) and 0.8 (inches), we can use these to solve and find the equation!

secondly, what you want to do, is see that we need to know how much growth out of the 0.8 inches he got in only 1 year, instead of 7 years.

let's try to divide.

7 ÷ 0.8 = 8.75