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- <h2>Loans</h2>
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- <p>This screen lets you calculate loan amounts and monthly
- payments. For example, if you borrow money to buy a car, you can
- figure out what your monthly payment will be. You can also do
- what-if scenarios; for example, given a desired monthly payment,
- you can calculate how much can you borrow.</p>
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- <p><strong>Example: </strong>You want to borrow $30000 to buy a
- car. The rate is 9%, and the term of the loan is 48 months.
- What's the monthly payment? Enter <strong>9, </strong>then press
- the <strong>Annual Rate</strong> button. Enter <strong>30000</strong>,
- then press the <strong>Amount </strong>button. Enter <strong>48</strong>,
- and press the <strong>Months</strong> button. Now, press the <strong>?</strong>
- button to the right of the <strong>Monthly Pmt</strong> button.
- The value next to <strong>Monthly Pmt</strong> shows $746.55.</p>
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- <p>Suppose you can only afford $600 per month, how much can you
- borrow? Enter <strong>600</strong>, then press the <strong>Monthly
- Pmt</strong> button. Now press the <strong>?</strong> button to
- the right of <strong>Amount</strong>. You'll see that you can
- borrow $24,110.87</p>
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- <p>Now, suppose you are really set on buying this car. Calculate
- the term of the loan to borrow $30,000 with a monthly payment of
- $600. Enter <strong>30000</strong>, and press the <strong>Amount</strong>
- button. Now press the <strong>?</strong> button to the right of
- the <strong>Months</strong> button. You'll see you can swing it
- with a loan of 62.90 months.</p>
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- <p><strong>Notes for this screen:</strong> the payments are
- assumed to be at the end of the month. The interest rate is an
- annual yeild, compounding monthly.</p>
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