Question: **only need help calculating IRR** You are considering opening a new plant. The plant will cost $104.3 million upfront and will take one year to

**only need help calculating IRR**

You are considering opening a new plant. The plant will cost $104.3 million upfront and will take one year to build. After that, it is expected to produce profits of $31.9 million at the end of every year of production. The cash flows are expected to last forever. Calculate the NPV of this investment opportunity if your cost of capital is 6.4%.Should you make the investment? Calculate the IRR. Does the IRR rule agree with the NPV rule?

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Part 1

Here is the cash flow timeline for this problem:

The timeline starts at Year 0 and goes on forever. It shows a cash flow of -104.3 in Year 0 and cash flows of 31.9 each year starting from Year 2, which continue forever. All the cash flows are in millions of dollars.

Years

0

1

2

3

4

Forever

Cash Flow ($ million)

104.3

31.9

31.9

31.9

31.9

The NPV of this investment opportunity is $364.16 million. (Round to one decimal place.)

Calculate the IRR.

The IRR of the project is____ % (Round to two decimal places.)

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