A loan of $20000 is to be repaid with monthly payments starting six months after the date of the loan. Each of the first six payments are half the size of each subsequent payment. The last payment will be at the end of 3 years (so 30 payments in total). The effective rate of interest is 6%. Find the size of the final payment.
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Since the loan is to be repaid over 3 years with monthly payments, there will be a total of 36 payments. However, the first payment doesn't start until 6 months after the date of the loan, so there will be 30 payments in total. Show more…
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