Time for action – figuring out the rate
Let's take the values from the Time for action – determining the number of periodic payments section and reverse compute the interest rate from the other parameters.
Fill in the numbers from the previous Time for action section:
print("Interest rate", 12 * np.rate(167, -100, 9000, 0))The interest rate is approximately 10 percent as expected:
Interest rate 0.0999756420664
What just happened?
We used the NumPy rate() function and the values from the Time for action – determining the number of periodic payments section to compute the interest rate of the loan. Ignoring the rounding errors, we got the initial 10 percent we started with.
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