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Date: Fri, 05/09/2008 - 09:26

Submitted by anonymous
on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 09:26

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I was wondering if you would be able to help me with this question?

A check-cashing store is in the business of making personal loans to walk -up customers. The stores makes only one-week loan at 8% interest per week.

a. The store must report an apr of ________% to its customers. The customers are actually paying an EAR of _______%.

Thanks So much


The apr they have to disclose is actually the same as the effective rate. Since the resulting yield is a time-price differential, you need to know the loan amount and points (document fee) in order to calculate it.

I think you may be confusing EAR with the nominal rate. To calculate the nominal rate, you would multiply by 52 (since there's 52 weeks in a year). 8*52 = 416%

Document fees kick up the effective rate. If they don't charge a document fee, nominal and effective will be the same.


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Submitted by DebtCruncher on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 20:15

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