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Afra has borrowed $6000 and agreed to pay it back in three equal payments to be made in 3 months intervals from today (i.e. 3 months from today, 6 months from today and 9 months from today). Find the size of the payments if interest is 5% p.a. compounding semi-annually.
Afra's Loan amounting is $6000
She will pay in 3 equal Quarterly payments starting at the end of each period.
firstly, Calculating the Nominal Interest rate compounded quarterly from Nominal Interest rate compounded semi-annually using EAR formual:-
where, r1 = Nominal Interest rate compounded quarterly
m1 = No of times compounding in a year = 4
r2 = Nominal Interest rate compounded Semi-annually = 5%
m2 = No of times compounding in a year = 2
taking 4-root on both sides,
r1 = 4.9691%
So, Nominal Interest rate compounded quarterly is 4.9691%
Now, Calculating the Equal Payments:-
Where, P = Loan amount = $6000
r = Periodic Interest rate = 4.9691%/4 = 1.242275%
n= no of periods = 3
Quarterly Payments = $2049.90
So, the size of the equal payments is $2049.90