Polaris Industries has \(\$ 1,250,000\) available for additional innovations on the Victory Vision motorcycle. These include the five indivisible, equal-lived alternatives, each of which guarantees the investment can be exited after 6 years with the initial investment returned. In addition, each year Polaris will receive an annual return as noted below. MARR is 15 percent.

For the original problem:

a. Which alternatives should Polaris select for the optimum portfolio?

b. What is the present worth for the optimum investment portfolio?

c. What is the IRR for the portfolio?
In addition to the original problem statement, Polaris has noted that Investments 1, 2, and 4 are mutually exclusive, and marketing believes at least 3 investments must be made.

d. Which alternatives should now be selected?

e. What is the present worth for the optimum investment portfolio?

f. What is the IRR for the optimum investment portfolio?

Return to the original problem statement using SOLVER for sensitivity analysis:
g. Determine the optimum portfolio (state the investments selected and the portfolio PW) using (1) the current limit on investment capital, (2) plus 20 percent, and (3) minus 20 percent.
h. Determine the optimum portfolio (state the investments selected and the portfolio PW) using (1) the current MARR, (2) plus 20 percent, and (3) minus 20 percent.

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Investment I 2 3 4 5 Initial Investment $350,000 $300,000 $250,000 $500,000 $400,000 Annual Return $90.000 $85,000 $75,000 $130,000 $115.000