You recently received a letter from Cut-to-the-Chase National Bank that offers you a new credit card that has no annual fee. It states that the annual percentage rate (APR) is 18% on outstanding balances. If the card is billed monthly with monthly compounding, what is the effective annual rate? (round to two decimals)
None of the available choices
1.50%
19.56%
6.00%
17.23%
18.00%
Annual percentage rate (APR) is 18%
Calculating Effective annual rate(EAR) of the stated APR:-
Where,
r = Interest rate(APR) = 18%
m = no of times compounding in a year = 12 (compounded Monthly)
EAR = 1.195618 - 1
EAR = 19.56%
So, the effective annual rate is 19.56%
Option B
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