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Okay so for this question we're going to be talking about a loan.
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So we have a student loan of $17 ,500.
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I had a fixed apr of 9 % for 25 years.
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You want to first calculate the monthly payment.
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Okay so how are we going to figure out the monthly payment? okay so there's something called the loan amortization formula and it will tell us our monthly payment.
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This formula is a equals p r divided by n divided by 1 minus 1 plus r divided by n to the exponent of negative n times t.
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Where p is the principal, r is the interest rate, n is how many times it's compounded per year, and t is years.
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So let's fill in this formula with our numbers and see what we get.
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Just to reiterate, p would be $17 ,500, r would be 0 .09 because we have 9%, and n would be 12.
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All right let's see what we get when we put this into a calculator.
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So when we do that our answer is $146 .86.
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Okay our next question we want to answer, we want to determine the total paid over the terms of the loan.
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So total amount.
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And basically how we do this is we take the 25 years right and there are 12 months in a year.
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We're going to be paying $146 .86...