SimpIntCharg: Simple Interest Charged (Engineering Economics)

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Simple Interest Charged (Engineering Economics)

Description

Computes the total interest paid at the end of n periods using simple interest

Usage

SimpIntCharg(P, n, i)

Arguments

P	numeric vector that contains the present value(s)
n	numeric vector that contains the period value(s)
i	numeric vector that contains the interest rate(s) as whole number or decimal

Details

Simple Interest Charged is expressed as

I = Pni

P

the "principal amount (lent or borrowed)"

I

the "simple interest"

i

the "interest rate per interest period"

n

the "number of interest periods"

Value

SimpIntCharg numeric vector that contains the simple interest amount paid at the end of n periods rounded to 2 decimal places

Author(s)

Irucka Embry

References

1. Chinyere Onwubiko, An Introduction to Engineering, Mission, Kansas: Schroff Development Corporation, 1997, page 205-206.

2. William G. Sullivan, Elin M. Wicks, and C. Patrick Koelling, Engineering Economy, Fourteenth Edition, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009, page 116.

Examples

library(iemisc)

# Example for equation 4-1 from the Sullivan Reference text (page 116)
# Modified example to provide the simple interest amount paid only

SimpIntCharg(P = 1000, n = 3, i = 10) # the interest rate is 10%

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