Sam takes out a $167,000 mortgage for 20 years. He makes monthly payments and at the end calculates that he has paid $240,141 towards the mortgage. What is the approximate APR? …

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Ouwen Huang · Answer 1 · 2021-07-11T13:11:45+0000

Answer:

About 3%

Explanation:

3% of $167,000 is $5,010

5010 times the 20 years is 100200 add that to the 167000 and you get $267,200

The actual answer is about 2.4% but 3% is the closest.