As the chief financial officer of Adirondack Designs, you have the following information:

a$.$ Calculate Adirondack's times$-$interest$-$earned ratio for next year assuming the firm raises $$58$ million of new debt at an interest rate

of $3$ percent.

b$.$ Calculate Adirondack's times$-$burden$-$covered ratio for next year assuming annual sinking$-$fund payments on the new debt will equal

$$4\mathrm{.}5$ million.

c$.$ Calculate next year's earnings per share assuming Adirondack raises the $$58$ million of new debt.

d$.$ Calculate next year's times$-$interest$-$earned ratio, times$-$burden$-$covered ratio, and earnings per share if Adirondack sells $2\mathrm{.}3$ million

new shares at $$25$ a share instead of raising new debt.

Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round "Earnings per share" answers to $2$ decimal places and other answers to $1$

decimal place.