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Example Question #1 : Interest
Ben and Sam are starting a furniture design business. In order to build their shop, they borrow $150,000 from their neighborhood bank. The interest rate on the loan is 6%. How much interest do they have to pay?
Possible Answers:
$1500
$6000
$3000
$9000
$12,000
Correct answer:
$9000
Explanation:
Simple interest = Amount borrowed x Interest rate =
150,000 x 6% = 150,000 x .06 = $9000
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Example Question #1 : How To Find Simple Interest
Amy recently opened a new credit card. In her first month, expenditures totaled $500 and she was not charged any interest. Amy paid $80 from her first month's bill. The second month, Amy spent another $60 on her credit card. This time, she was charged 5% interest on her total unpaid balance. How much interest was Amy charged?
Possible Answers:
$24.00
$32.00
$4.80
$48.00
$12.00
Correct answer:
$24.00
Explanation:
This requires us to keep track of Amy's expenses. After her first month, the unpaid balance was 500 - 80 = $420.
However, after the second month, her unpaid balance went up to $480.
5% of 480 can be obtained by multiplying
480 x .05 = 24
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Example Question #1 : How To Find Simple Interest
Ella loaned Frances$10,000to start a business. They agreed that the loan would be paid back in five years, with a simple interest rate of 9%. When the loan is paid back in full, what will be the total amount that Ella collects?
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
Explanation:
The simple interest formula is given by I = PRt where I = interest, P = principal, R = rate, and t = time.
Here, I = 10,000 * 0.09 * 5 = $4,500.
The total repayment amount is the interest plus the principal, so $4,500 + $10,000 = $14,500 total repayment.
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Example Question #1 : How To Find Simple Interest
An account accrues
of simple interest during a fifteen year period. If this is accrued yearly at a rate of
, what was the initial balance of the account at the beginning of this period? Round to the nearest dollar.
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
Explanation:
Simple interest has the formula of:
, where
is the starting balance,
is the interest rate, and
is the number of accrual periods.
For our data, this is simply:
Simplifying, we get:
Divide both sides by
to get:
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Example Question #5 : How To Find Simple Interest
An account accrues simple interest on an initial balance of
dollars at a rate of
per year. After
years, how much interest has accrued to the account?
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
Explanation:
Simple interest has the formula of:
, whereis the starting balance,is the interest rate, andis the number of accrual periods.
For our data, this is simply:
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Example Question #6 : How To Find Simple Interest
The equation
can be used to calculate simple interest, where
is the total interest,
is the principal amount,
is the rate of interest expressed as a decimal and
is the amount of times interest is added.
A man pays
in annual interest on a loan of
. If the loan repayment term was
years,what was the interest rate?
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
Explanation:
Plugging our variables into the above equation gives us
Thus, our interest rate is
.
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Example Question #7 : How To Find Simple Interest
The equation
can be used to calculate simple interest, where
is the total interest,
is the principal amount,
is the rate of interest expressed as a decimal and
is the amount of times interest is added.
Grant takes out a personal loan to buy a car. He pays
in interest before the loan is repaid. If the interest rate is
compounded annually and it took Grant
years to repay the loan, what amount was the original loan for?
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
Explanation:
Using the
equation gives us:
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Example Question #8 : How To Find Simple Interest
The equation
can be used to calculate simple interest, where
is the total interest,
is the principal amount,
is the rate of interest expressed as a decimal and
is the amount of times interest is added.
Ashley wants to take out a loan for some home improvements. She knows that her simple interest rate will be
monthly, and that she will need to borrow
. If she wants to pay no more than
in interest over the life of the loan, what is the longest amount of time in months she has to pay off the loan?
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
Explanation:
Using the
equation gives us:
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Example Question #9 : How To Find Simple Interest
The equation
can be used to calculate simple interest, where
is the total interest,
is the principal amount,
is the rate of interest expressed as a decimal and
is the amount of times interest is added.
A loan officer realizes an error has been committed on an account -- a customer with a
loan has been paying an annual interest rate of
for the last
years instead of the promised annual interest rate of
. If the loan was just paid off, how much money does the bank owe the customer?
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
Explanation:
First, we must use our formula to determine how much money the customer has paid in interest:
Now, calculate how muchshouldhave been paid, based on the correct interest rate:
Lastly, find the difference between these two numbers:
Thus, the bank owes the customer
.
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Example Question #10 : How To Find Simple Interest
How much more money will a savings account at
annual simple interest generate than an account at
, if both accounts start with
and are left untouched for
years?
Possible Answers:
Correct answer:
Explanation:
First, we must use our formula to determine how much interest each account generates, then subtract the greater from the smaller.
So, the account at
interest saves
more.
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