7. Problems and Applications Q7 Your cousin Vinnie owns a painting company with fixed costs of $200 and the following schedule for variable costs: Quantity Variable Cost Average Fixed Cost Average Variable Cost Average Total Cost (Houses Painted per Month) (Dollars) (Dollars) (Dollars) (Dollars) 1 10 2 20 3 40 4 80 5 160 6 320 7 640 The efficient scale is houses.

Minolta inc. is considering a project that has the following cash flow and wacc data. what is the project's mirr? note that a project's projected mirr can be less than the wacc (and even negative), in which case it will be rejected. wacc: 10.00% year 0 1 2 3 4 cash flows -$850 300 $320 $340 $360

Calculate the cost of each capital component—in other words, the after-tax cost of debt, the cost of preferred stock (including flotation costs), and the cost of equity (ignoring flotation costs). use both the capm method and the dividend growth approach to find the cost of equity.calculate the cost of new stock using the dividend growth approach.what is the cost of new common stock based on the capm? (hint: find the difference between re and rs as determined by the dividend growth approach and then add that difference to the capm value for rs.)assuming that gao will not issue new equity and will continue to use the same target capital structure, what is the company’s wacc? e. suppose gao is evaluating three projects with the following characteristics.each project has a cost of $1 million. they will all be financed using the target mix of long-term debt, preferred stock, and common equity. the cost of the common equity for each project should be based on the beta estimated for the project. all equity will come from reinvested earnings.equity invested in project a would have a beta of 0.5 and an expected return of 9.0%.equity invested in project b would have a beta of 1.0 and an expected return of 10.0%.equity invested in project c would have a beta of 2.0 and an expected return of 11.0%.analyze the company’s situation, and explain why each project should be accepted or rejected g

At cooly cola, we are testing the appeal of our new diet one cola. in a taste test of 250 randomly chosen cola drinkers, 200 consumers preferred diet one cola to the leading brand. assuming that the sample were large enough, the large-sample 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of cola drinkers that prefer diet one cola would be: