Anthony has a Visa card with a $33,500 limit, a MasterCard with a $22,000 limit, a Chase Card with a limit of $17,000 and a Discover card with a $37,500 limit.   Anthony has accumulated the following balances on his credit cards: Visa card: $19,299, MasterCard: $19,952 Chase card: $2,000 Discover card: $3,886   What is Anthony’s debt-to-credit ratio?

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Anthony has a Visa card with a $33,500 limit, a MasterCard with a $22,000 limit, a Chase Card with a limit of $17,000 and a Discover card with a $37,500 limit.

 

Anthony has accumulated the following balances on his credit cards:

Visa card: $19,299,

MasterCard: $19,952

Chase card: $2,000

Discover card: $3,886

 

What is Anthony’s debt-to-credit ratio? 

 

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Step 1: Meaning and formula of debt-to-credit ratio

Debt-to-credit ratio is also known as Credit Utilization rate.

It represents how much debt you have used out of total credit available.


Debt-to-credit ratio= (Total debt / Total Credit available) x 100

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