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qid 742 · business

Question: You are willing to buy a new machine for $1,000 because it will save you $150 annually for the next 10 years. What is the rate of return on this investment?

  1. 14%
  2. 9.5%
  3. 8.0516%
  4. 10%
  5. 8.5%
  6. 12%
  7. 11.3%
  8. 5%
  9. 7.5%
  10. 6.2%

Our answer: C. 8.0516% Source quote machine-checked (exact quote)

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Capital budgeting internal rate of return (IRR) on annuity investment problem

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Wikipedia, "Internal rate of return"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_rate_of_return

“The IRR of an investment or project is the "annualized effective compounded return rate" or rate of return that sets the net present value (NPV) of all cash flows (both positive and negative) from the investment equal to zero.”

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