Total Interest
WAL allows one to easily compute the total interest payments, which is given by:
where r is the annual interest rate and P is the initial principal.
This can be understood intuitively as: "A dollar of principal is outstanding for on average the WAL, hence the interest on an average dollar is, and now one multiplies by the principal to get total interest payments".
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