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Suppose you borrow $871,000 to purchase a house. The loan term is 30 years, the loan rate is 7.39% APR, and there are monthly payments.
Using this information, answer the following five questions below.
a) Find the monthly payment on the original 30 year loan. Express your answer as a positive number in dollars and cents, and round appropriately.
b) Given the payment you found, above, find the total amount of interest that you will pay on the loan ("assuming no pre-payment"). Express your answer in dollars and cents.
c) Now, assume you STOP paying anything on the loan between months 88 and 115. Given this (undesirable) strategy, how much ADDITIONAL interest will you pay on the loan, compared to your answer to (b)? Per usual, express your answer in dollars and cents, and round appropriately. If your answer to this part is tESS than the answer to (b). express your answer as a negative number.
Hint: you make payment #88.
Hint 2 : the term of the loan will extend beyond the original 360 months.
Hint 3: If the answer to (b) were $400,000(it's not...). and the answer to this part were $650,000(it's not...), then the answer you would enter below would be $250,000(it won't...).d) Now suppose you have a wealthy Aunt who gives vou a gift in month 100 of the loan's life. The gift will allow you to pay the loan back according to the original 30 year loan term. The terms of the gift are that you will receive it in month 100, and you must apply it (i.e. "pay it") to the loan in one lump sum in month 100. In other words, everything happens in month 100. How much does your Aunt have to give you? Express your answer in dollars and cents.
Hint: you still make payment #88.
Hint 2: NOT, the total term of the loan (for everything....the entire loan...from start to finish... in totality) is 360 months.e) Given your Aunt's gift, above, how much ADDITIONAL interest will you pay on the loan, compared to your answer to (b)? Per usual, express your answer in dollars and cents, and round appropriately. If your answer to this part is LESS than the answer to (b), express your answer as a negative number.
d) Now suppose you have a wealthy Aunt who gives you a gift in month 100 of the loan's life. The gift will allow you to pay the loan back according to the original 30 year loan term. The term of the gift are that you will receive it in month 100, and you must apply it to the loan in one lump sum in month 100. In other words, everything happens in month 100. How much does your Aunt have to give you? Express your answer in dollars and cents.
e) Given your Aunt's gift, above, how much ADDITIONAL interest will you pay on the loan, compared to your answer to (b)? Per usual, express your answer in dollars abd cents, and round appropriately. If your answer to this part is LESS than the answer to (b), express your answer as a negative number.

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