You must use the FINANCIAL FUNCTIONS in EXCEL to calculate your answers.

Base scenario data: You are planning to purchase a house that costs $480,000. You plan to put 20% down and borrow the remainder. Based on your credit score, you believe that you will pay 3.99% on a 30-year mortgage.

1. Base scenario (#1): Use function PMT to calculate your mortgage payment.

2. Scenario #2: Use function PV to calculate the loan amount given a payment of $1500 per month. What is the most that you can borrow?

3. Scenario #3: Use function RATE to calculate the interest rate given a payment of $1500 and a loan amount of $400,000.

4. Scenario #4: Assume that you plan to pay an extra $300 per month on top of your mortgage payment, calculate how long it will take you to pay off the loan given the higher payment. (Use interest rate of 3.99% AND the house cost and down payment of scenario #1). Calculate how much interest you will pay in total? Compare this to the value that you calculated for #2.

Scenario #5: You want to determine whether or not you should save some of your money and put only 10% down on your house. Because you are only putting 10% down, lenders require that you purchase private mortgage insurance (PMI). Assume that PMI is 1% of the mortgage amount.

1. Calculate your total monthly payment (mortgage payment plus PMI).

2. Calculate the total cost of financing your home purchase (interest plus PMI).

3. Calculate the total cost of the home purchase. (Down payment plus principal [loan amount] plus interest plus PMI.)

4. Compare this to the costs associated with a 20% down payment.