You are purchasing a house and your bank is giving you a special
mortgage that will require annual payments for
24
years. The amount borrowed now is
$390,000
and the first mortgage payment will be in one year.
a. Using C as the payment amount, indicate on a timeline
all of the cash flows from your perspective related to this
mortgage (outflows should be indicated as a
negative number).
b. What will your payments be if the interest rate is
3.4%
per year?
c. What will your payments be if the interest rate is
5.4%
per year?
d. Comparing your answers in parts b and c, when interest
rates increased by
2%,
by what percent did the mortgage payments increase?