FUTURAMA: FRY'S BANK

PROLOGUE

Futurama is an American animated science fiction comedy series. The series follows the adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the31st century after being frozen for one thousand years.

ACT ONE

Fry notices that the bank where he used to have an account has remained in business. He still has his ATM card and remembers his PIN code. The account had contained 93 cents in 1999.

After 1,000 years (with an interest at 2.25 % per year) , 
how much money does Fry have in his bank account right now?

Write down a guess.

 ACT THREE

video: fry's bank balance

SEQUEL

• It took 1,000 years to get that much money. How many more years will it take to double it?
• How long will it take him to get a trillion dollars?

Compound interest