Miguel purchased a hot tub costing $5,070 by taking out an installment loan. He made a down payment of $1,300 and financed the balance for 24 months. If the payments are $175.77 each month, use the APR formula to find the APR. Round to the nearest hundredth of a percent.
To calculate the rate of interest we either need a financial calculator or use excel's goal seek function:
We are given the following information:
Payment | PMT | $ 175.77 |
Rate of interest | r | To be calculate |
Nomber of years | n | 2 or 24 months |
Monthly payment | frequency | 12 |
Loan amount | PV | $ 3,770.00 |
We need to solve the following equation to arrive at the required PV:
APR = 11.03%
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