Marian Plunket owns her own business and is considering an investment. If she undertakes the investment, it will pay $4000 at the end of each of the next three years. The opportunity requires an initial investment of $1000 plus an additional investment at the end of the second year of $5000.

What is the NPV of this opportunity if the interest rate is 2% per year? Should Marian take it?

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