Please refer to the steps shown below:
So 119.37 will be the monthly payment of the loan. Now we discount this monthly payment using the reinvestment rate of 6% to find the effective present cost as:
Finally we can calculate the effective heating costs as:
So the effective annual heating costs should be 538.32
Note that we have used the time value of money functions of Excel for above calculations. They can be done similarly on a financial calculator also. If you need to do manually, you can use the formula for Present value of annuity for these calculations.
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