Promissory Notes
Calculating Interest
Installment Loans
Early Loan Repayment
APR
100

A way to find interest that uses a 365-day year.

What is the exact interest method?

100

The simple interest formula.

What is I = PRT?

100

Part of the purchase price of an item that is paid at the time you take out a loan.

What is down payment?

100

A fee charged if you pay off a loan early.

What is a pre-payment penalty?

100

What APR stands for.

What is Annual Percentage Rate?

200

A way to find interest that uses a 360-day year; also called the banker's interest method.

What is the ordinary interest method?

200

The daily interest factor for $600 borrowed at 18% exact interest. (Round to 4 decimal places)

What is $0.2959? ($600 x .18/365)

200

How often you usually make payments on an installment loan.

What is monthly?

200

Credit scores affect your APR. Scores generally range between 300 and ?

What is 850?

300

Rosa borrows $1,000 @ 6% exact interest for 85 days. How much interest does she pay?

What is $13.97? ($1,000 x .06 x 85/365)

300
This tells you how much interest a note is accumulating per day.

What is the daily interest factor? 

300

The installment price is higher than the cash price because the seller add this to the cash price.

What is a finance charge? 

(= installment price - cash price)

300

You have a 12-month, $2,000 simple interest loan at 9% interest. You repay the loan in full with the 6th payment when your balance is $1,188.40. What was the amount of your final payment?

What is $1,197.31? ($1,188.40 x .09 x 1/12 = $8.91; $1,188.40 + $8.91 = $1,197.31)

400

The amount borrowed on a promissory note.

What is the principal? (or face amount)

400

Find the ordinary interest from March 3 - 15 on $1,000 at 15% interest. 

What is $5.00? ($1,000 x .15/365 = $0.4167)

($0.4167 x 12 days = $5.00)

400

You buy a new purse for $25 down and a total installment price of $297.34. You pay $30.26 monthly. It will take you how many months to pay off this loan?

What is 9 months? ($297.34 - $25 = $275.34; $275.34/$30.26 = 9)

400

Defaulting on your mortgage loan can lead to this.

What is foreclosure?

500

You pay $450 in interest on a 3-month note for a $12,000 loan. What is the rate of interest you paid?

(Rate of Interest = 1 years interest / principal amount)

What is 15%?  

$450 x 4 = $1800 interest for 1 year

$1,800/$12,000 = 0.15 = 15%

500

Find the interest on $725 @ 11% for 2 months.

What is $13.29? (I=PRT: $725 x .11 x 2/12)

500

A computer costs $1200. You buy it on an installment loan by putting $100 down and making payments of $38 a month for 36 months. Find the finance charge.

What is $268? ($38 x 36 = $1,368 + $100 down = $1,468 installment price) 

($1,468 - $1,200 cash price = $268)

500

You borrow $10,500 at 8.5% for 5 years. Your monthly payment is $215.42. You did not pay off the loan early. How much did you pay back to the lender?

What is $12,925.20? ($215.42 x 60 months)

500

Requires the lender to tell the borrower what the APR is charged on the loan.

What is the Truth in Lending Act?