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Farid has a loan for $9300

Finance Aug 14, 2020

Farid has a loan for $9300. He will make weekly payments (52 payments per year) of interest only for 6 years, and then his final payment will also include the initial amount of the loan.

a) If his weekly payments (except the last) are $12.1101, what is the effective annual interest rate?  

Farid is planning to pay accumulate the money to pay off the loan by making regular deposits (at the end of each period) in a sinking fund paying an effective annual rate of 5% per year.

b) If he makes weekly deposits (52 weeks in a year), how much is each deposit?  

c) If he makes monthly deposits, how much is each deposit?  

d) The answer to part c) is more than 4 times the answer to part b).    

True

False

Expert Solution

a). Computation of the effective annual interest rate (EAR):-

Weekly interest rate = Weekly payment / Loan amount

= $12.1101 / $9,300

= 0.13%

Effective annual interest rate = (1 + Weekly interest rate)^n-1

= (1+0.13%)^52- 1

= 1.0700 - 1

= 7.00%

 

b). We can calculate the weekly deposits by using the following formula in excel:-

=pmt(rate,nper,pv,-fv)

Here,

Pmt = Weekly deposits

Rate = 5%/52 = 0.0962% (weekly)

Nper = 6*52 = 312 periods (weekly)

PV = 0

FV = $9,300

Substituting the values in formula:

= pmt(0.0962%,312,0,-9300)

= $25.57

 

c). We can calculate the monthly deposits by using the following formula in excel:-

=pmt(rate,nper,pv,-fv)

Here,

Pmt = Monthly deposits

Rate = 5%/12 = 0.4167% (monthly)

Nper = 6*12 = 72 periods (monthly)

PV = 0

FV = $9,300

Substituting the values in formula:

= pmt(0.4167%,72,0,-9300)

= $111.03

d). The answer to part c) is more than 4 times the answer to part b because;

Answer in Part C / Answer in Part B = $111.03 / $25.57

= 4.34 times

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