Arthur takes out a new loan of $60 000 to pay for an overseas holiday.
Interest on this loan compounds weekly.
The balance of the loan, in dollars, after \(n\) weeks, \(V_n\), can be determined using a recurrence relation of the form
\(V_0=60\ 000, \quad V_{n+1}=1.0015\,V_n-d\)
- Show that the interest rate for this loan is 7.8% per annum. (1 mark)
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- Determine the value of \(d\) in the recurrence relation if
- i. Arthur makes interest-only repayments (1 mark)
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- ii. Arthur fully repays the loan in five years. Round your answer to the nearest cent. (1 mark)
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- Arthur decides that the value of \(d\) will be 300 for the first year of repayments.
- If Arthur fully repays the loan with exactly three more years of repayments, what new value of \(d\) will apply for these three years? Round your answer to the nearest cent. (1 mark)
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- For what value of \(d\) does the recurrence relation generate a geometric sequence? (1 mark)
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