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U TO -/1 View Policies Current Attempt in Progress Assume that Wal-MartStores, Inc. has decided to surface and maintain for 10 years a vacant lot next to one of its stores to serve as a parking lot for customers. Management is considering the following bids involving two different qualities of surfacing for a parking area of 11,500 square Yards Bid A: A surface that costs $5.75 per square yard to install. This surface will have to be replaced at the end of 5 years. The annual maintenance cost on this surface is estimated at 25 cmnts per suwe yard for each year except the last year of its service. The replacement surface will be similar to the initial surface Bid B: A surface that costs $10.50 per square yard to install. This surtace has a probable useful le of 10 years and will require annual maintenance in each year except the last year, at an estimated cost of 11 cents per square yard. Click here to view tactor tablet Compute present value of the bids. You may assume that the cost of capital is 11%, that the annual maintenance expenditures are incurred at the end of each year, and that prices are not expected to change during the next 10 years. (Rourse fuctor values to decimal places, eg. 1.25124 and final answer to decimal places ey. 458,581) Present value of outflows for Bid A $ $ Present value of outflows for Bid B