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 Cori's Sausage Corporation is trying to choose between the following two mutually exclusive design projects:  | 
  
| Year | Cash Flow (I) | Cash Flow (II) | |||||
| 0 | –$ | 65,000 | –$ | 39,800 | |||
| 1 | 29,200 | 18,000 | |||||
| 2 | 29,200 | 18,000 | |||||
| 3 | 29,200 | 18,000 | |||||
| a-1. | 
 If the required return is 12 percent, what is the profitability index for each project?(Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 3 decimal places, e.g., 32.161.)  | 
| Particulars | Year | PVF @ 12% | Cash flow project A | PV Project A | Cash flow project B | PV Project B | 
| Cash Outflow | 0 | 1.00 | -65000 | (65,000) | (39,800) | (39,800) | 
| Cash Inflow | 1 | 0.89 | 29200 | 26,071 | 18,000 | 16,071 | 
| Cash Inflow | 2 | 0.80 | 29200 | 23,278 | 18,000 | 14,349 | 
| Cash Inflow | 3 | 0.71 | 29200 | 20,784 | 18,000 | 12,812 | 
| NPV | 5,133 | 3,433 | ||||
| Profiability Index | 1.08 | 1.09 |