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tiara099

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Consider a 30,000 car loan over six years at 7 APR. Assume an option where the car loan offers 0 financing for the first two years of the loan or 7 financing over six years. What are the payment choices to ensure that no interest on the loan is paid?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Consider a 20,000 car loan over five years at 8 APR. Assume an option where the car loan offers 0 financing for the first two years of the loan or 8 financing over five years.
 
  What are the payment choices to ensure that no interest on the loan is paid? Does this imply that money is free? Explain.
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: There are two methods to consider. First, you can make 24 equal payments of = 1,250. This will pay off the entire loan before interest is charged. Second, you can make the regular 7 APR payments for two years and then pay off the balance with what is called a balloon payment. The PVIFA factor for 6  12 = 72 periods and a periodic interest rate of = 0.58333 is:
PVIFA = 58.65444. The monthly annuity payment is: PMT = = = 511.47. The total monthly payments for two years would be 24  511.47 = 12,275.28. Therefore, your balloon payment at the end of two years would be 30,000.00 - 12,275.28 = 17,724.72.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: There are two methods to consider. First, you can make 24 equal payments of = 833.33. This will pay off all of the loan before interest is charged. Second, you can make the regular 8 APR payments for two years and then pay off the balance with what is called a balloon payment. The PVIFA factor for 5  12 = 60 periods and a periodic interest rate of = 0.66667 is 49.31843. The monthly annuity payment is: PMT = = = 405.53. The total monthly payments for two years would be 24  405.53 = 9,732.67. Therefore, your balloon payment at the end of two years would be 20,000.00 - 9,732.67 = 10,267.33. Do the two methods imply that money is free? The answer is yes only if you are willing to make the loan period last just two years and can either (i) increase your monthly payments to 833.33 or (ii) pay off the balloon balance of 10,267.33 at the end of the second year following 24 equal payments of 405.53. For many people, these two options may not be feasible. For example, many people may find 833.33 a month for a car loan too much for their budget even if for only two years, and it may be even more difficult to come up with a balloon payment of 10,267.33 after the two-year period.




tiara099

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Reply 2 on: Jul 10, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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