143k views
5 votes
a credit card has an APR of 16.42% all of last year and compounded interest daily. What was the credit cards effective interest rate last year?

1 Answer

0 votes

Answer: 17.84

To calculate the effective interest rate you'll need the following formula.

(1+ APR / n ) ^n -1 *100.

APR has to be expressed as a decimal, so 0.1642.

n is the period. as it is daily, n=365.

1+(0.1642/365) to the power of 365. will give you 1.1784

Minus 1, and times by 100 to get it as a percentage = 17.84%

User Mkleint
by
8.5k points

No related questions found

Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.

9.4m questions

12.2m answers

Categories