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If you borrow $4000 from an online lending company to buy a PC and agree to pay it in
48 equal installments at 0.9% interest per month on the unpaid balance, how much are
your monthly payments? (ans= $102.99)
It is a problem of annuity. We know the present value as PVoa = 4000. Now we want to
find out the payment of each moth PMT given the interest rate is 0.9% monthly for 48
months.
The formula of present value of an annuity is:
PVoa = PMT [(1 - (1 / (1 + i)n)) / i]
PVoa = Present Value of an Ordinary Annuity
PMT = Amount of each payment
i = Discount Rate Per Period
n = Number of Periods
Substituting the values to the above equation,
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48
1 0.9%
4000 PMT
0.9%
PMT 102.99
So the monthly payment is $102.99.
And how much total interest will be paid. (ans= $943.52)
The total payment is then $102.99 * 48 = $4943.52.
So the interest will be paid:
$4953.52 - $4000 = $943.52.
2.
A business borrows $80,000 at 9.42% interest compounded monthly for 8 years.
It is still a problem of present value of an annuity is given to find out the monthly
payment.
a.) what is the monthly payment?
9.42%
0.785%
The interest rate per month is i
12
The total periods are: n 8 *12 96 months.
So
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96
1 0.785%
80000 PMT
0.785%
PMT 1189.52
1189.52
FV payments PMT
14906.96
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0.785%