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A car dealership offers a 120-month loan for a blue car costing 30,000, with an annual nominal interest rate of 9% compounded monthly and level end-of-month payments.
A bank offers a loan to each of two borrowers with different credit scores. Both loans are for the
The dealership also offers a loan for a red car costing 33,000, with the same interest rate and end-of-month payments as for the loan for the blue car.
same amount.
The first borrower is charged a monthly effective interest rate of 1% and makes level end-of-
month payments of X for n months to pay off the loan.
The second borrower is charged a monthly effective interest rate of 2.01% and makes level end-
of-month payments of 2.01X for 200 months to pay off the loan.  


Calculate the number of months needed to pay off the loan for the red car
Calculate n.
 
<ul class="mw-excansopts"><li>200</li><li>250</li><li>300</li><li>350</li><li>400</li></ul>


<ul class="mw-excansopts"><li>132</li><li>135</li><li>138</li><li>140</li><li>141</li></ul>


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A bank offers a loan to each of two borrowers with different credit scores. Both loans are for the same amount. The first borrower is charged a monthly effective interest rate of 1% and makes level end-of- month payments of X for n months to pay off the loan. The second borrower is charged a monthly effective interest rate of 2.01% and makes level end- of-month payments of 2.01X for 200 months to pay off the loan.

Calculate n.

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