Question: Suppose you take out a five - year car loan for $ 1 3 0 0 0 , paying an annual interest rate of 5

Suppose you take out a five-year car loan for $13000, paying an annual interest rate of 5%. You make monthly payments of $245 for this loan.
Getting started (month 0): Here is how the process works. When you buy the car, right at month 0, you owe the full $13000. Applying the 5% interest to this (5% is "5 per $100" or "0.05 per $1"), you would owe 0.05***$13000=$650 for the year. Since this is a monthly loan, we divide this by 12 to find the interest payment of $54.17 for the month. You pay $245 for the month, so $54.17 of your payment goes toward interest (and is never seen again...), and )=$190.83 pays down your loan.
(Month 1): You just paid down $190.83 off your loan, so you now owe $12809.17 for the car. Using a similar process, you would owe 0.05***$12809.17=$640.46 for the year, so (dividing by 12), you owe $53.37 in interest for the month. This means that of your $245 monthly payment, $53.37 goes toward interest and $191.63 pays down your loan.
The values from above are included in the table. Continue the process for the rest of the first year of the loan.
\table[[Months,Amount still owed,\table[[Monthly interest],[paid]],\table[[Amount of monthly],[payment that goes],[toward paying off],[the loan (after],[paying interest)]]],[0,13000,54.17,190.83],[1,12809.17,53.37,191.63],[2,12617.54,,],[3,,,],[4,,,],[5,,,],[6,,,],[7,,,],[8,,,],[9,,,],[10,,,],[11,,,],[12,,,]]
What is the total amount paid in interest over this first year of the loan?
 Suppose you take out a five-year car loan for $13000, paying

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