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How Long It Will Take To Become A Millionaire?

This interactive calculator will show you how long it will take to become a millionaire.

MOST of us have dreamed of one day becoming a millionaire.

Now you can see exactly how long it would take you to become one.

This interactive calculator shows how much you’d need to put away each year to save a seven-figure sum.

And some of us might be rather old, if we continue at this rate.

How Long It Will Take To Become A Millionaire
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Others may be surprised to see that it is not necessarily an impossible fantasy.

Not only does the calculator show the importance of starting early, it underlines what a difference a high interest account can make.

Michelle Hutchison, money expert at finder.com.au, told news.com.au: “It’s common for people to underestimate the value of a decent interest rate on their savings and this calculator really shows how big a difference it can make.

“For instance, if you are 25 years old and have $10,000 sitting in your transaction account earning next to no interest (0.1 per cent), and you save $1000 per month, it will take you about 79 years to reach millionaire status.

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Arkansas Mom Destroys Common Core In 4 Minutes

Arkansas Mom Destroys Common Core In 4 Minutes

We need more people like Karen Lamoreaux to speak the truth. Common Core is nothing more than Social Engineering.

Hopefully this video will wake some people up.

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An ordinary mother of three eviscerated Common Core state standards in her powerful four-minute testimony before the Arkansas Board of Education Monday.

The testimony comes in the wake of major protests against the uniform guidelines. The mom, a member of Arkansas Against Common Core, and identified as Karen Lamoreaux, testified that rather than “a set of rigorous, college-ready international benchmark standards” that the Common Core initiative was touted to be, it tends to dumb down math solutions by, ironically, overcomplicating them.

As an example, she gave the board a simple fourth-grade division problem, which Common Core requires students to use 108 steps to solve.

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“The academia-jet set coalition is attempting to tame the American character by the deliberate breeding of helplessness and resignation—in those incubators of lethargy known as “Progressive” schools, which are dedicated to the task of crippling a child’s mind by arresting his cognitive development.” ~ Ayn Rand

 

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How Many Ways Can You Arrange A Deck Of Cards?

How many ways can you arrange a deck of cards? Yannay Khaikin explains the mind-boggling math.

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One deck. Fifty-two cards. How many arrangements? Let’s put it this way: Any time you pick up a well shuffled deck, you are almost certainly holding an arrangement of cards that has never before existed and might not exist again. Yannay Khaikin explains how factorials allow us to pinpoint the exact (very large) number of permutations in a standard deck of cards.

 

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