A fire destroyed a large percentage of the financial records of the Carter Health System. You have the task of piecing together information to prepare a financial report. You have found the profit margin to be 5.4 percent. If sales were $4 million on total assets of $2 million and the amount of debt financing was $800,000, what was Carter's return on equity? (Hint: Use the Du Pont equation to answer this question.)

Select one:

a. 13.8%

b. 18.0%

c. 19.2%

d. 21.6%

e. 25.8%