Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Explain how much it will cost in interest to pay a loan off in 5 years if compounded monthly.

We assume the nominal rate of the interest to be r percent per annum, the principal loan amount burrowed to be P .


Then the monthly interest works out (r/12)% = r/1200 per rupee or per dollar or per unit of money. Period of compounding is month.


The loan amount growing by compound interest: The loan  amount  of  P grows in one month=P(1+r/1200) along with interest.


The loan amount P grows to  P(1+r/1200)^ 2 in 2 months, along with interest.


The loan amount grows to become  P(1+r/1200)^12 in 12 months or one year period together with interest.


The loan amount with interest,therefore, grows to become P(1+r/1200)^60 in  60 months or 5 years, period. Take off the principal loan amount  from the grown amount with interest  in 5 years, and then you get what costed you the compound interest over  your loan of P .


Therefore , the cost of compound interest for the Principal loan amount ,P for  5 years, compounding being monthly = the amount loan grown in 5 years  minus principal amount of loan=


=P(1+r/1200)^60 -P= P{(1+r/1200)^60   - 1}


Therefore, the cost of compound interest for 5 years on 1 unit of money = P(1+r/1200)^60 -1}/P = (1+r/1200)^60 -1. From this we can construct a table for different rates of interest for different principal loan amount and get the cost of compound  interest for 5 years ,compounding monthly, as below:


Loan Vs Interest rate   : cost of compound interest  for 5 years at  rates:


Amoun(principal)Loan     :      1%           2%          3%            4%           5%



1                                    0.0512    0.1051    0.1616   0.2210  0.2834



100                              5.12        10.50       16.16     22.10       28.34

10000                         512.49  1050.08   1616.16  2209.97   2833.59


The construction of the table can be extended simimarly for different rate of nominal interests, and for different principles and we can use it to get any intermediate values , by interpolation if requred.

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