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Credit Scores: The Number That Runs Your Life

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Payment History's 35 percent weight against New Credit's 10 percent gets sorted out as students work through a five-step playbook a teenager with zero history can follow. A hard inquiry's five to ten point hit and two-year mark sit next to the soft inquiry that costs nothing.

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