Asked by Name

The more often a loan compounds, the higher the interest of the loan will be.

False

True

All Answers 1

Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
True.

For a given nominal annual interest rate r, increasing the compounding frequency n raises the effective annual rate (EAR), computed as (1 + r/n)^n − 1. Example with r = 10%:
- Annual (n=1): EAR = 10.00%
- Monthly (n=12): EAR = (1 + 0.10/12)^12 − 1 ≈ 10.47%
- Daily (n=365): EAR ≈ 10.52%

(If the quoted rate is already the effective rate, changing compounding frequency doesn’t change the interest.)