How good is your knowledge of APRs?

8 October 2007

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If someone lent you £10 and said: "give it me back tomorrow and a pound on top", roughly what Annual Percentage Interest Rate would this be? (don’t use a calculator, go on instinct.)

If someone lent you £10 and said: "give it me back tomorrow and a pound on top", roughly what Annual Percentage Interest Rate would this be? (don’t use a calculator, go on instinct.)

Results

A. 1%		367 votes (4 %)
B. 5%		162 votes (2 %)
C. 10%		2,977 votes (34 %)
D. 25%		134 votes (2 %)
E. 50%		360 votes (4 %)
F. 100%		384 votes (4 %)
G. 250%		285 votes (3 %)
H. 500%		648 votes (7 %)
I. 1,000%		2,055 votes (23 %)
J. 1,000,000%		902 votes (10 %)
K. 10 billion %		140 votes (2 %)
L. More than there are stars in the sky		403 votes (5 %)

                   8,817 votes received.

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