MONTHLY PAYMENTS 1.11
The situation – Buying a Car You want to buy a car that costs $10,000 and are planning on putting $1,000 down. Pretend it’s a perfect world and you have 0% interest. You plan on paying $250 per month Create a recursive function to model how much you would owe after n months.
Answer the following How much would you owe after… 1 month? 2 months? 6 months? 1 year? Could you pay off the car in 36 months? Find a closed form function for this situation
Now lets make it more real
Let’s use the equation
You can actually use your calculator
Refresher Write a closed form function for the two tables below… XY∆ XY∆
Refresher Write a recursive formula to find how much you owe after n months: Car costs $15,000 and you have a $2,000 payment. Interest rate is 4.7% APR
Calculator Continued
To use the formula Find how much is owed after 2 months Type in b(2) and hit enter On your own… How much do you owe after… 4 months, 6 months, 2 years? Can you pay the car off in 36 months?
On your own Using your calculator…Car costs $15,000 and you have a $2,000 payment. Interest rate is 4.7% APR How much do you owe after… 2 months 6 months 12 months 3 years?
Two additional equations…
Examples
For you to do… Project p.82 – 83 For each situation ONLY fill out the table