1. You dream of endowing a chair in finance at the local university that will provide a salary of $150,000 per year forever, with the first cash flow to be one year from today. If the university promises to invest the money at a rate of 5.5% per year, how much money must you give the university today to make your dream a reality? Please show work.

2. Find the Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR) for the following annual series of cash flows, given a discount rate of 10.50%: Year 0: -$75,000; Year 1: $15,000; Year 2: $16,000; Year 3: $17,000; Year 4: $19,500; and, Year 5: $18,000. Please show work.

3. A firm is considering purchasing an asset that will have a useful life of 10 years and cost $5 million; it will have installation costs of $500,000 and a salvage or residual value of $300,000. What is the annual straight-line depreciation for this asset? Please show work.