document.write( "Question 1121288: You found your dream house. It costs $487000, and you put $50000 as a down payment. For the rest you get a 28-year 5% mortgage (with first payment due in one month). What will be your monthly mortgage payment? (Assume no early repayment.) \n" ); document.write( "
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i used the following time value of money calculator.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "it can be found at https://arachnoid.com/finance/\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "the results of the use of that calculator are shown below:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "your inputs to this calculator are:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "present value = 437000.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "this is the purchase price of 487000 minus the 50000 down payment leaving 437000 that needs to be paid off by the mortgage.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "future value = 0 because there should be no remaining balance in the account at the end of the mortgage period.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "number of monthly periods = 28 years * 12 month per year = 336 monthly periods.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "interest rate of 5% per year / 12 = monthly interest rate of .416667% per monthly period.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "payments are to be made at the end of each month.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "you click on PMT and the calculator tells you that the monthly payment is -2419.12 per month.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "the present value is positive because it's money that you receive.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "the payment is negative because it's money that you pay out.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "your monthly payment is $2,419.12 per momth.\r
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