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What is the APR

Trying to fill in my snowball calculator but struggling with the APR of a Virgin Credit Card.

It has 2 different rates, how do i work out the %interest rate. Cannot get it to their figures

Balance £1758.67 rate 1.4352%

Balance £4447.19 rate 1.5766%

My latest bill showed the following

Balance from previous page
EST INTEREST-NEXT STATEMENT 96.07
Payment due date 30 Jan 13
Available to spend 12,294.14
Minimum payment 154.98
New balance this statement 6,205.86

Thanks in advance

Comments

  • FireWyrm
    FireWyrm Posts: 6,557 Forumite
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    The two rates are probably for two types of borrowing. For instance, a cash advance will have more interest applied to that portion of the debt than a straight up card purchase.

    To work out the interest, work out 1.4 and 1.5% of their respective balances and add the two results together.
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  • Nicky321
    Nicky321 Posts: 1,426 Forumite
    Thanks for the reply,

    Do you mean enter them as 2 different debts on the snowball calculator?

    Any idea what the minimum repayments are on different credit cards?

    Virgin?

    Barclaycard?
  • Nicky321
    Nicky321 Posts: 1,426 Forumite
    are these correct

    Barclaycard Mastercard
    2% Balance and APR 26.94

    Barclaycard Platinum Simplicity
    2.25% balance and APR 6.84

    ?
  • FireWyrm
    FireWyrm Posts: 6,557 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    The below tells you how APR is calculated.

    Try this : http://www.fpb.org/calculators/apr.asp
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