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Question - : Your child is going to college for the next 4 years. You are setting up a college fund that your child withdraws from at the BEGINNING of each 6 month period (2 withdrawls each year). Each withdrawl is $ 3000. The account pays 12% annual interest rate, compounded 2 times a year. How much money should you put in the account now?
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