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among mutually exclusive investments???Pound Industries is attempting to select the best of three mutually exclusive projects. The initial investment and? after-tax cash inflows associated with these projects are shown in the following table.
| 
 Cash flows  | 
 Project A  | 
 Project B  | 
 Project C  | 
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| 
 Initial investment? (CF)  | 
 ?$60 comma 00060,000  | 
 ?$100 comma 000100,000  | 
 ?$100 comma 000100,000  | 
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| Cash
inflows? (CF),
 tequals=1 to 5 | 
 ?$20 comma 00020,000  | 
 ?$31 comma 00031,000  | 
 ?$31 comma 50031,500  | 
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a.??Calculate the payback period for each project.
b.??Calculate the net present value? (NPV) of each? project, assuming that the firm has a cost of capital equal to
1212?%.
c.??Calculate the internal rate of return? (IRR) for each project.
d.??
Indicate
which project you would recommend.a.??The payback period of project A is
nothing
years.???(Round to two decimal? places.)The payback period of project B is
nothing
years.???(Round to two decimal? places.)The payback period of project C is
nothing
years.???(Round to two decimal? places.)b.??The NPV of project A is
?$nothing.
?(Round to the nearest? cent.)The NPV of project B is
?$nothing.
?(Round to the nearest? cent.)The NPV of project C is
?$nothing.
?(Round to the nearest? cent.)c.??The IRR of project A is
nothing?%.
?(Round to two decimal? places.)The IRR of project B is
nothing?%.
?(Round to two decimal? places.)The IRR of project C is
nothing?%.
?(Round to two decimal? places.)
d.??Which project would you? recommend????(Select the best answer? below.)
A.
Project Upper CProject C
B.
Project Upper BProject B
C.
Project Upper AProject A