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A check-cashing store is in the business of making personal loans to walk-up customers. The store makes only one-week loans at 7.3 percent interest per week. |
a. |
What APR must the store report to its customers? What EAR are customers actually paying? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
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Now suppose the store makes one-week loans at 7.3 percent discount interest per week. What’s the APR now? The EAR? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
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The check-cashing store also makes one-month add-on interest loans at 7.3 percent discount interest per week. Thus if you borrow $100 for one month (four weeks), the interest will be ($100 × 1.0734 ) – $100 = $32.56. Because this is discount interest, your net loan proceeds today will be $67.44. You must then repay the store $100 at the end of the month. To help you out, though, the store lets you pay off this $100 in installments of $25 per week. What is the APR of this loan? What is the EAR? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) |
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