saumya sharma
saumya sharma
7 years ago

If Mr kuber had lent $10 million at an interest rate of 40% p.a.to a less preferred customer Mr Narada, after how many years would the principal double itself if compounded half-yearly?


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  1. Rishabh Chhetry
    Rishabh Chhetry :
    3 years ago

    20=10(1+40/200)2n
    n is the number of years.
    This reduces to finding n when (1.2)2n=2.
    Now we need to use a bit of approximation here.
    This is where you speed of calculation can come in handy.
    (1.2)2 = 1.44
    (1.2)4 =(1.44)2
    Estimating (1.44)2 gives us the idea that it must lie between (1.44)2 =1.96 and (1.5)2 = 2.25.
    A linera interpolation will tell us that it must be somewhere in the middle, ie around 2.10
    so (1.2)4 = 2.1
    hence the principal would double in slightly less that 2 years.

  2. Pooja Mungi
    Pooja Mungi :
    7 years ago

    How to solve this?

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