A2 - 6a Ms. Cressida bought a car for $48,000 exactly three years ago. After making an up-front equity payment of $5,000, she borrowed the rest of the car value from her bank in the form of a...

A2 - 6a

Ms. Cressida bought a car for $48,000 exactly three years ago. After making an up-front equity payment of $5,000, she borrowed the rest of the car value from her bank in the form of a five-year loan. She negotiated a loan rate of 2.5% APR with semi-annual compounding. She makes loan payments of an equal dollar amount every two weeks (i.e., biweekly), and her first loan payment was due two weeks after she signed the loan contract.

a. What is the effective annual rate on Cressida’s loan?