1.The balance sheet of Wisconsin Dairy Products, in millions of dollars, is shown below:

Current Assets:100 Fixed Assets: 400 Total Assets: 500 Current Liabilities: 50

Long-Term Debt: 200 Deferred taxes: 50 Common Stock: 100 Retained Earnings: 100 Total Liabilities & net worth: 500

In addition, the following information is provided:

The debt consists of 20-year, 8%, semi-annual, $1,000 bonds, presently selling at $701.25. Floatation costs on new bonds would raise the effective before-tax interest cost to 0.5% above the yield to maturity on existing debt.

The company has 10 million shares of common stock outstanding, with a market price of $30 a share. The stock has a beta of 1.5. The risk-free rate is 10% and the average market risk premium is 6.5%. Floatation costs would raise the effective cost of new equity by 1% over the cost of existing equity.

Over the next year, which is the company's capital investment planning period, the company expects to have a net income of $30 million, half of which will be paid out as dividends.

The company faces a tax rate of 35%.

a.With the given information, determine the number of 20-year bonds outstanding.

b.Determine the weights of debt and equity using (i) the book values and (ii) the market values.

c.Determine the cost of debt, cost of retained earnings, and cost of new common stocks.