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Rising Star
Building an amortization schedule is going to be much easier to visualize and understand than a formula.
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No, I made an amortization schedule.
Try 360 financial literacy- they have a calculator for everything. This way you can see the impact of paying off extra each month.
69 months
926 in interest
Rising Star
Can you show your work? Gut check is 69 months doesn't seem right at that high of rate, and I don't see the issue with my solution above (amortization table) at ~93 months and my answer seems consistent when you plug and chug into bank rate's resource:
https://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/credit-card-payoff-calculator/
Source:https://www.vcalc.com/wiki/credit-card-equation
I might of found it
No you don’t.
You should understand how to solve maths problems.
Learning your formulas helps for your tests but won’t help you in finance unless you understand them because real life problems always have twists
This is the school's solution.
Solution: To calculate the monthly interest rate, divide the annual interest rate by 12: 18% / 12 = 1.5% or 0.015. Each month, the balance will increase by the monthly interest rate multiplied by the current balance: $2,500 * 0.015 = $37.50. Therefore, the effective payment each month is $50 - $37.50 = $12.50. To find the number of months it will take to pay off the balance, divide the initial balance by the effective payment: $2,500 / $12.50 = 200 months. The tota
Thanks for everyone's feedback. I appreciate the conversation. It not best online school, but economically enough to finish school.
I agree with you! This is not the best example for what they are trying to project in their lesson .