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Nov 18'23
Exercise
Tanner takes out a loan today and repays the loan with eight level annual payments, with the first payment one year from today. The payments are calculated based on an annual effective interest rate of 4.75%. The principal portion of the fifth payment is 699.68.
Calculate the total amount of interest paid on this loan.
- 1239
- 1647
- 1820
- 2319
- 2924
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ABy Admin
Nov 18'23
Solution: A
[[math]]
\begin{align*}
699.68=P\nu^{8-5+1}\\ P=842.39~(\textrm{annual payment})\\ P_{1}=\frac{609.68}{1.0475^{4}}=581.14 \\
I_{1}=842.39-581.14=261.25 \\
L =\frac{261.25}{0.0475}=5500 (\textrm{loan amount})
\end{align*}
[[/math]]
Total interest = 842.39(8) - 5500 = 1239.12.
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