your local pawn shop loans money at an annual rate of 24 percent and compounds interest weekly. What is the actual rate being charged on these loans?

27%

Explanation:

The actual rate being charge on these loans is the effective annual rate and the formula to calculate it is:

i=(1+(r/m))^m−1

i= effective annual rate

r= interest rate in decimal form=0.24

m=number of compounding periods per year= 52 (a year has 52 weeks).

i=(1+(0.24/52))^52-1

i=1.27-1

i=0.27

According to this, the answer is that the actual rate being charge on these loans is 27%.

all of them make sense but, i would have to say ask someone who has been there/or lives there, and/or read recent newspapers from that city.

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