What is your monthly payment for this loan?

Question

In order to buy a new car, you finance $20,000 with no down payment for a term of five years at an APR of 6%. After you have the car for one year, you are in an accident. No one is injured, but the car is totaled. The insurance company says that before the accident, the value of the car had decreased by 25% over the time you owned it, and the company pays you that depreciated amount after subtracting your $500 deductible.

What is your monthly payment for this loan? (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)

Answer 1

$20,000 x 1.06 x 5 = $14,945.38

20,000 - 0.25 = 15,000

15,000 x 1.06 x 5 = 11,209.04

11,209.04 + 4.500 =15,709.04