rate - The interest rate per period. We divide the value in C6 by 12 since 4.5% represents annual interest: per - the period we want to work with. Supplied as 1 since we are interested in the the principal amount of the first payment. pv - The present value, or total value of all payments now. In the case of a loan, this is input as a negative value by adding a negative sign in front of C5 to supply -5000. With these inputs, the PPMT function returns 74.465, which is rounded to $74.47 since the Currency number format is applied.
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