00:01
Since they give you the formula, i'm just going to fill it in as i see necessary.
00:05
So your monthly payment is the principal, or the outstanding balance of $15 ,000 over part of the formula has this giant bracket in here, but it's just a parenthesis.
00:16
It's 1 minus 1 plus.
00:19
Now be careful with this interest rate.
00:21
You do want to change it to a decimal .03, but you also want to divide by 12 to make it monthly.
00:27
And then the next thing that you have is it's a five year loan and n is the number of payments.
00:35
So where am i getting negative 48 from? let me write it to this.
00:40
That's the wrong number, but i'll write it to the side is there's 12 months in a year and for five years, you're getting 60.
00:51
I was just double checking that 60 all over just the interest rate, which was that .03 over 12 still.
01:02
And so now i can go to a calculator and you know, depending on your calculator, you might just use a parenthesis where these brackets are.
01:11
My calculator can just make the fraction.
01:14
So i'm just going to make it exactly look exactly like what it looks like on the problem with the use of parentheses.
01:22
And i got an answer of $269 and 53 cents...