In deciding to purchase furniture, you are faced with financing options. The price of the furniture is

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In deciding to purchase furniture, you are faced with financing options. The price of the furniture is $5800, and the furniture store will arrange a loan with an interest rate of 13.5%, and monthly payments over 48 months, starting in nine months.
a. If you pay the balance owed after nine months, how much would you have to pay?
b. You can choose to borrow the money from your bank. You would have to borrow the purchase price now at an interest rate of 10% compounded monthly. If you pay the balance owed after nine months, how much would you have to pay?
c. Which is the best option, and by how much?
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Contemporary Business Mathematics with Canadian Applications

ISBN: 978-0133052312

10th edition

Authors: S. A. Hummelbrunner, Kelly Halliday, K. Suzanne Coombs

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