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igivenPFn: Interest rate given Future value, Number of periods, and Present value (Engineering Economics)

Description

Compute i given F, n, and P

Usage

igivenPFn(P, F, n)

Arguments

P
numeric vector that contains the present value(s)
F
numeric vector that contains the future value(s)
n
numeric vector that contains the period value(s)

Value

  • i numeric vector that contains the effective interest rate as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places

encoding

UTF-8

Details

i is expressed as

$$i = \sqrt[n]{\frac{F}{P}} - 1$$

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References

William G. Sullivan, Elin M. Wicks, and C. Patrick Koelling, Engineering Economy, Fourteenth Edition, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009, page 128-129, 142.

Examples

Run this code
library(iemisc)
# Example for equation 4-6 from the Reference text (page 128)
igivenPFn(P = 500, F = 1000, n = 10)

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