Laurent invested some money in a bank account.
The relationship between the elapsed time, $t$, in decades, since Laurent invested the money, and the total amount of money in the account, $M_{\text{decade}}(t)$, in dollars, is modeled by the following function:
###$M_{\text{decade}}(t)=4900\cdot (1.5)\^{\Large t}$
**Complete the following sentence about the *yearly* rate of change in the amount of money in the account.**
*Round your answer to two decimal places.*
Every ***year***, the amount of money in the account increases by a factor of [[☃ math-keypad 1]].