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Q1. A company will sell Gizmos to consumers at a price of $87 per unit. The variable cost to produce Gizmos is $26 per unit. The company expects to sell 19,000 Gizmos to consumers each year. The fixed costs incurred each year will be $100,000. There is an initial investment to produce the goods of $3,400,000 which will be depreciated straight line over the 16 year life of the investment to a salvage value of $0. The opportunity cost of capital is 6% and the tax rate is 35%.

What is operating cash flow each year? what is the net present value of this investment? should the company accept or reject this project?

Q2. Daily Enterprises is purchasing a $9,000,000 machine. The machine will depreciated using straight-line depreciation over its 8 year life and will have no salvage value. The machine will generate revenues of $5,000,000 per year along with costs of $2,000,000 per year.

If Daily's marginal tax rate is 38%, what will be the cash flow in each of years one to 8 (the cash flow will be the same each year)?

Q3. A project requires an increase in inventories, accounts payable, and accounts receivable of $145,000, $85,000, and $30,000, respectively. If opportunity cost of capital is 9% and the project has a life of 8 years, and the working capital investments will be recovered at the end of the life of the project, what is the effect on the NPV of the project? Enter your answer rounded to two decimal places.

Q4. A company sells Widgets to consumers at a price of $85 per unit. The cost to produce Widgets is $50 per unit. The company will sell 13,000 Widgets to consumers each year. The fixed costs incurred each year will be $250,000. There is an initial investment to produce the goods of $2,400,000 which will be depreciated straight line over the 14 year life of the investment to a salvage value of $0. The opportunity cost of capital is 8% and the tax rate is 27%.

Q5. An auto plant that costs $100 million to build can produce a new line of cars that will produce net cash flow of $30 million per year if the line is successful, but only $2 million per year if it is unsuccessful. You believe that the probability of success is about 40 percent. The auto plant is expected to have a life of 20 years and the opportunity cost of capital is 12 percent. What is the expected net present value of building the plant?

Q6. You estimate that your sheep farm will generate 2.5 million of profits on sales of 5.4 million under normal economic conditions. If sales turn out to by 5.7 million, profits are expected to be 2.8 million. What is the degree of operating leverage? Enter your answer rounded to two decimal places.