To calculate the simple interest earned in one year, you can use the formula for simple interest:
where:
is the interest, is the principal (the initial amount deposited), is the annual interest rate (expressed as a decimal), is the time in years.
In this case:
(the initial amount deposited), (10% expressed as a decimal), (for one year).
Now we can substitute these values into the formula:
Calculating this gives:
So, the interest earned during any one of the years the money is deposited is