To help open up a wine bar Shen borrowed money from his credit union he took out a personal aortized loan for 43,000 at an interest rate of 6.55% with monthly payments for a term of 8 years for each part do not round any intermediate computations around your final answers to the nearest cent if she pays the monthly payment each month for the full term find the total amount of interest he will pay

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To find the total amount of interest Shen will pay, we first need to calculate the monthly payment for the loan.

The loan amount is $43,000.
The interest rate is 6.55% per year, or 0.0655 as a decimal.
The term of the loan is 8 years, or 8*12 = 96 months.

Let's use the formula to calculate the monthly payment for an amortized loan:

Monthly Payment = (P * r * (1 + r)^n) / ((1 + r)^n - 1)

Where:
P = Loan amount
r = Monthly interest rate
n = Number of payments

So, plugging in the values:
P = $43,000
r = 0.0655/12 (monthly interest rate)
n = 96

Monthly Payment = (43000 * (0.0655/12) * (1 + (0.0655/12))^96) / ((1 + (0.0655/12))^96 - 1)

Calculating the monthly payment using the equation mentioned above gives us approximately $601.32.

Now, let's calculate the total interest paid over the term of the loan:

Total Interest Paid = (Monthly Payment * Number of Payments) - Loan Amount

Total Interest Paid = ($601.32 * 96) - $43,000

Total Interest Paid ≈ $19,884.65 (rounded to the nearest cent)

Therefore, Shen will pay approximately $19,884.65 in interest over the term of the loan.