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MetroBank offered loans with increasing monthly payments over five years, yet average monthly loan payments to MetroBank had decreased by the end of the five-year term.
The correct answer will be a hypothesis explaining how average monthly payments actually decreased by the end of the five-year term, despite the graduated payment plan. Because we're concerned with the average of the ten companies' payments, the explanation could involve all of the companies or just a few.
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We’re talking about the ten companies in question. It doesn’t matter how MetroBank handled other companies.
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It doesn’t matter where else the small companies get their money from. We need to know why the average payment to MetroBank specifically ended up decreasing.
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Our concern is just with the repayment of these ten loans offered by MetroBank. Other banks don’t factor into our problem.
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By the end of the five-year term, only seven companies were still paying off their loans. Their loan payments were still increasing, but since the bigger borrowers were already out of the picture, MetroBank received a lower average payment. This explains the confusion.
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According to the stimulus, the loans issued to small companies all had graduated payment plans, meaning the monthly payments were increasing. The terms of other loans are irrelevant to us.
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