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Compensating balance versus discount loan Weathers Catering Supply, Inc., needs to borrow
$ 151 comma 000$151,000
for
66
months. State Bank has offered to lend the funds at an annual rate of
9.4 %9.4%
subject to a
10.4 %10.4%
compensating balance.
(Note:
Weathers currently maintains
$ 0$0
on deposit in State Bank.) Frost Finance Co. has offered to lend the funds at an annual rate of
9.4 %9.4%
with discount-loan terms. The principal of both loans would be payable at maturity as a single sum.
a. Calculate the effective annual rate of interest on each loan.
b. What could Weathers do that would reduce the effective annual rate on the State Bank loan?