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Question - Milner Sisters has 25,000 shares of common stock outstanding at a market price of $48 a share. The common stock just paid a $2.20 annual dividend and has a growth rate of 2.5 percent. There are 12,000 shares of 6 percent preferred stock outstanding at a market price of $62 a share. The outstanding bonds mature in 13 years, have a total face value of $750,000, a face value per bond of $1,000, and a market price of $1,011.92 each. The bonds pay 7 percent interest, semiannually. The tax rate is 34 percent. What is the firm's weighted average cost of capital?

a. 7.13 percent

b. 7.39 percent

c. 7.44 percent

d. 7.82 percent

e. 7.91 percent