The business plan for Knowlt, LLC, a start-up company that manufactures portable multigas detectors, showed equivalent annual cash flows of $400,000 for the first 5 years. If the cash flow in year 1 was $308,000 and the constant increase thereafter was $50,000 per year, what interest rate was used in the calculation? The interest rate used in the calculation was %.
The business plan for Knowlt, LLC, a start-up company that manufactures portable multigas detectors, showed equivalent annual cash flows of $400,000 for the first 5 years. If the cash flow in year 1 was $308,000 and the constant increase thereafter was $50,000 per year, what interest rate was used in the calculation? The interest rate used in the calculation was %.
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![The business plan for Knowlt, LLC, a start-up company that manufactures portable
multigas detectors, showed equivalent annual cash flows of $400,000 for the first 5 years.
If the cash flow in year 1 was $308,000 and the constant increase thereafter was $50,000
per year, what interest rate was used in the calculation?
The interest rate used in the calculation was
%.
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Transcribed Image Text:The business plan for Knowlt, LLC, a start-up company that manufactures portable
multigas detectors, showed equivalent annual cash flows of $400,000 for the first 5 years.
If the cash flow in year 1 was $308,000 and the constant increase thereafter was $50,000
per year, what interest rate was used in the calculation?
The interest rate used in the calculation was
%.
ces
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The initial investment has not been considered while computing NPV since this value has not been given in the question.
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