Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Interest?

In calculus we are learning about interest, and boy oh boy is it 'interest'ing! This topic is quite helpful to the upcoming college freshmen in the class, because there will be opportunities to get loans and credit cards as a college student. Now do some research and find
•a typical/average interest rate on a student loan
or
•an extremely high or low interest rate for a credit card
Good luck, I'm excited to see your findings!

8 comments:

  1. http://m.creditcards.com/credit-cards/discover-more-card-silver this website had a very great offer!! Interesting topic!

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  2. I found that the average public loan rate according to finaid.org is between 7.9% and 8.5% but a private loan can have up to 12% interest. According to mail online, britain had a credit card this christmas with an APR of 227% and claimed it was "easier shopping"! Sheesh.

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  3. Through this website link: http://www.simpletuition.com/student_loans_home, you can find the best student loans for you, as well as compare them (plus you can sort by rate!). When I entered my information, with a request for a $5,000 loan, the lowest rate I could get was 2.38 and the highest was 3.40

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  4. I found a credit card company that was defending its extremely high credit card interest rate at 79.9%. Here is its link. http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/first-premier-79-rate-fees-credit-card-1265.php

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  5. I found that the average rate of interest on a private student loan is now around 9.5-10%

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  6. According to www.creditcards.com, the average national credit card interest rate is 14.78%. They Also have a lot of other interesting stats.

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  7. According to Studentloan.com, the average interest on a student loan is 7.9%.

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  8. According to https://www.salliemae.com/landing/dp/?dtd_cell=SEMGOLNRGSL006497&002=2200491&004=1209690082&005=1512442396&006=10156338562&007=Search&008= average rates are 3.29%-9.48%!

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