1Q. Norris Co. has developed an improved version of its most popular product. To get this improvement to the market, will cost $48 million and will return an additional $13.5 million for 5 years in net cash flows. The firm's debt-equity ratio is .25, the cost of equity is 13 percent, the pretax cost of debt is 9 percent, and the tax rate is 30 percent. What is the net present value of this proposed project?

2Q . A project has an initial cost of $480,000, projected cash inflows of $311,500, cash costs of $214,650, a tax rate of 35 percent, and a weighted average cost of capital of 13.8 percent. What is the net present value of the project?