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Use the NPV method to determine whether Gendron Products should invest in the following projects:

• • Project A costs $285,000 and offers eight annual net cash inflows of $60,000. Gendrons Products requires an annual return of 14% on projects like A.
• • Project B costs $385,000 and offers nine annual net cash inflows of $70,000. Gendron Products demands an annual return of 12% on investments of this nature.
  Requirement What is the NPV of each project? What is the maximum acceptable price to pay for each project?

Compute IRR—unequal cash flows (Learning Objective 4) Chandler Chairs is considering an equipment investment that will cost $955,000. Projected net cash inflows over the equipment’s three-year life are as follows: Year 1: $494,000; Year 2: $390,000; and Year 3: $304,000. Chandler wants to know the equipment’s IRR.Requirement Use trial and error to find the IRR within a 2% range. (Hint: Use Chandler’s hurdle rate of 10% to begin the trial-and-error process.)