Tracey Is Buying a Condo and Will Have a Mortgage

Multiple Choice

Tracey is buying a condo and will have a mortgage of $180 000 which she plans to pay off in 25 years.The interest rate is 5% compounded semi-annually.Her payments would be $1046 a month.She has heard she can reduce the time it would take to pay off her mortgage if she pays $523 every two weeks instead.How many years it would take her to pay off her mortgage if she chooses the second option.

A) 10.2 years
B) 21.7 years
C) 25.0 years
D) 21.5 years