Your friend is taking out a mortgage for $130,000 at 8.00% repayable with monthly payments over 35 years. She respects your financial expertise and asks "how many payments will I have to make before I reduce the principal balance by half its original amount." You pull out your calculator, and tell her the number of payments she'll make to reduce the balance by half is: 325 205 140 195 263
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