A house is to be purchased for $480,000 with a 10 percent down payment. A conventional 30-yr loan is used at 7.5 percent, resulting in monthly payments of $3,020.61 . The interest portion of the first monthly payment will be what?
The rate of interest is 7.5 %. Convert it to a monthly effective rate of interest.
Calculating Nominal Rate of Interest
where
r=Effective Rate of Interest
r(p)=Nominal rate of interest
compounded p- times a year
Therefore,
Calculating the monthly effective rate of
interest
The monthly effective rate of interest is 0.6045 %.
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Loan after down payment =480000-480000*0.1=432000
interest amount in first installment =loan amount in the last payment * monthly effctive interest rate
=432000*0.00605
=2613.6
the interest portio is $2613.6
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