MATH
Simple Interest and
Simple Discount
Business Math, Eighth Edition
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11.1 The Simple Interest Formula
Find simple interest by using the simple interest formula.
Find the maturity of a loan.
Convert months to a fractional or decimal part of the year.
Find the principal, rate or time using the simple interest formula.
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Key Terms
Interest: an amount paid or earned for the use of money.
Simple interest: interest earned when a loan or investment is repaid in a lump sum.
Principal: the amount of money borrowed or invested.
Rate: the percent of the principal paid as interest per time period.
Time: the number of days, months or years that the money is borrowed or invested.
Business Math, Eighth Edition
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11.1.1 The Simple Interest Formula
The interest formula shows how interest, rate, and time are related and gives us a way of finding one of these values if the other three values are known.
I=PxRxT
Business Math, Eighth Edition
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Find the simple interest using the simple interest formula
Business Math, Eighth Edition
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Identify the principal, rate and time
P=RxB
The interest is a percentage.
Principal is the amount borrowed or invested.
Rate of interest is a percent for a given time period, usually one year.
Time must be expressed in the same unit of time as the rate. (i.e. one year)
Business Math, Eighth Edition
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