More Personal Finance

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• More Personal Finance

• Please take a seat in your new assigned seat.
• Please pick up your POD Answer Sheet, your
  folders, and a calculator.
• 3. Grab a pencil and sharpen it if needed.
• 4. Please be ready to start working when the bell
  rings.

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POD Are you ACT ready?

• 1. The picture above shows the front view of a
  tunnel that extends 250 meters. The shaded area
  is the concrete roof of the tunnel. Approximately
  how much concrete was used to build the tunnel?
• 2. A rectangle is twice as long as it is wide. If
  the width of the rectangle is 3 inches, what is
  the rectangle's area, in square inches?
• F. 6 G. 9 H.12 J. 15 K. 18

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• ACT REMINDERS
• Saturday, December 13
• Registration Deadline Nov. 7
• THIS FRIDAY
• COST
• 31 (No Writing)
• 46 (Writing Section)
• www.actstudent.org

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• Topics of Discussion

• Credit Cards
• Credit History
• Loans (Car, House, Student)
• How interest works
• Where to save your money?
• Stocks, Mutual Funds
• Retirement (401K, IRA, Roth IRA)
• Anything else?

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• Assignment

• Your great uncle recently left you 20,000 in his
  will which you want to use for college. Use the
  internet to research where you should keep your
  money.
• KEEP IN MIND
• You want the best interest rate you can get.
• You want the money to be available next August.
• Please include the name of the lender and on
  website you found the info.