6. 64.

Calculating interest rates [LO 6.2] You are buying a house and will borrow $225 000 on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage with monthly payments to finance the purchase. Your loan officer has offered you a mortgage with an APR of 4.3 per cent. Alternatively, she tells you that you can ‘buy down’ the interest rate to 4.05 per cent if you pay points up front on the loan. A point on a loan is 1 per cent (one percentage point) of the loan value. How many points, at most, would you be willing to pay to buy down the interest rate?