Oppenheimer Bank is offering a 30-year mortgage with an APR of 4.9 % based on monthly compounding. With this mortgage your monthly payments would be $ 1,954 per month. In addition, Oppenheimer Bank offers you the following deal: Instead of making the monthly payment of $ 1,954 every month, you can make half the payment every two weeks (so that you will make 52/2 = 26 payments per year). With this plan, how long will it take to pay off the mortgage if the EAR of the loan is unchanged? Note: Make sure to round all intermediate calculations to at least 8 decimal places.

The number of payments will be ____ which is approximately ___ years.(Round to two decimal places and enter the years rounded to the nearest whole number.)