A-Rod Manufacturing Company is trying to calculate its cost of capital for use in making a capital budgeting decision. Mr. Jeter, the vice-president of finance, has given you the following information and has asked you to compute the weighted average cost of capital. The company currently has outstanding a bond with a 11.5 percent coupon rate and another bond with an 9.1 percent rate. The firm has been informed by its investment banker that bonds of equal risk and credit rating are now selling to yield 12.4 percent. The common stock has a price of $69 and a expected dividend of $1.89 per share. The historical growth path for dividends as follows:1.44, $1.58. 1.73. $1.89 . Compute the historical growth rate, round it to the nearest whole number and use this value for g.