Cersei needs a quick loan of $100 million and the Iron Bank has agreed to lend her the $100 million if she makes 10 monthly payments in the amount of $12 million each, to be paid at the end of each month starting one month from today. Cersei is about to agree to the terms, but then her brother Jamie says that he will lend her a hand by loaning the money she needs, and he will charge her an effective annual rate that is lower than the effective annual rate of the loan from the Iron Bank. Neither Jamie nor Cersei knows how to calculate the effective annual rate for this loan, so they have turned to you for help. 

What is the effective annual rate (E.A.R.) on the loan from the Iron Bank based on the terms above?(Give your answer in percentage terms with two decimals, e.g. 6% would be entered as 6.00)?

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