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Walker Machine Tools has 5.8 million shares of common stock outstanding. The current market price of Walker common stock is $58 per share rights-on. The companys net income this year is $19.00 million. A rights offering has been announced in which 580,000 new shares will be sold at $52.50 per share. The subscription price plus seven rights is needed to buy one of the new shares.

a.	What are the earnings per share and price-earnings ratio before the new shares are sold via the rights offering?(Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Earnings per share	$
Price-earnings ratio

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What would the earnings per share be immediately after the rights offering? What would the price-earnings ratio be immediately after the rights offering? (Assume there is no change in the market value of the stock, except for the change when the stock begins trading ex-rights.)(Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Earnings per share	$
Price-earnings ratio