Answer: 7.12%
Explanation:
Effective Annual Interest rate is the nominal interest rate adjusted for the number of compounding periods a financial product will experience in a period of time.
To calculate the Effective Annual Rate one can use the following formula,
Effective Rate of Interest = (1+r/m)^m - 1
where r is the rate and
M is the no of compounding periods per year which in this case would be 2 because the payments are semi annual
Plugging in figures would give us,
Effective Rate of Interest = (1+0.07/2)^2 - 1
=0.0712
= 7.12%
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