SOLUTION: A loan of 17400 dollars is to be repaid in annual installments of 2100 dollars, the first due in one year, followed by a final smaller payment. If the effective rate of interest is

Algebra.Com
Question 1192592: A loan of 17400 dollars is to be repaid in annual installments of 2100 dollars, the first due in one year, followed by a final smaller payment. If the effective rate of interest is 8.2 percent, what is the outstanding balance owed immediately after the 5th payment?

Answer by Theo(13342)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
you are given the effective rate interest per year of 8.2%.
the loan amount is 17400.
the payments at the end of each year are 2100.
with 2100 being paid at the end of each year, it will take 14.43513668 years to satisfy the loan.
the amount owed immediately after the 5th payment will be equal to 13434.83269.
this is equal to 13434.83 when rounded to the nearest penny.

i used the texas instruments BA-II-Plus calculator to get these results.

there is an online calculator at https://arachnoid.com/finance/index.html that will give you comparable results.

here are the displays from using that calculator.

the first two displays show the inputs and output for finding the number of years required to satisfy the loan.
you provide all the inputs for everything except np (number of time periods) and then you click on np to get the number of years required to satisfy the loan.

the second two displays show the inputs and output for find the balance remaining immediately after making the 5th payment.
the output from the first two displays tells you that the number of years to satisfy the loan is equal to 14.44.

to find the remaining balance after the payment at the end of the fifth year, you subtract 5 from 14.44 to get 9.44.
you input number of years at 9.44 and then solve for present value to get the remaining balance of the loan.

here are the displays.









i also used excel to show you the year by year transactions.
that is shown below.


you can see that the remaining balance at the end of year 5 is equal to 13434.82369.

the ti-ba-ii calculator and excel agree.
the online calculator doesn't agree.
this is because the online calculator rounded the number of years to 2 decimal places, affecting the result.


RELATED QUESTIONS

A business borrows 56000 dollars at an effective rate of interest of 7.3 percent. The... (answered by Theo)
A business borrows 54000 dollars at an effective rate of interest of 8.1 percent. The... (answered by Theo)
An education loan of $8400 for ten years is to be repaid in monthly installments of... (answered by rfer)
A loan of $ 10500 is to be repaid in 43 equal monthly installments with the first one... (answered by Theo)
John's three year home improvement loan is to be repaid in monthly installments of... (answered by Smirnov)
A loan of $ 12,000 is to be repaid within one year with level monthly payments, due at... (answered by Theo,ikleyn)
A mortgage is taken for GH¢10,000 and is repaid by annual installments of GH¢2,000.... (answered by Theo)
off with monthly payments where f is the finance charge on the Loan p is the number of... (answered by Theo)
Could someone please help me with this problem. There was an example in the book, but I... (answered by josmiceli,scott8148)