Assume a 30-month cd purchased for $3000 pays simple interest at an annual rate of 5.5%. how much total interest does it earn? what is the balance at maturity?

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no because after the troops were pulled many blacks were killed by hangings lynchings and other cruel ways which in a way interrupted the reconstruction of the south and differed from the way abraham lincoln had an idea of reconstruction