You have a loan outstanding. It requires making 3 annual payments of $1000 each at the end of 3 the next years. Your bank has of
fered to restructure the loan so that instead of making the 3 payments as originally agreed, you will make only one final payment in 3 years. If the interest rate on the loan is 5%, what final payment will the bank require you to make so that it is indifferent to the two forms of payment? The final payment the bank will require you to make is? (Round to the nearestdollar.)
1 answer:
Answer: $3,153
Explanation:
The amount that will make you indifferent is the future value of the 3 payments at the end of those 3 years at 5%.
Future value of Annuity = Annuity * Future Value interest factor, 3 years, 5%
= 1,000 * 3.1525
= $3,153
Bank will require a final payment of $3,153 for you to be indifferent.
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