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Investment Outlay Talbot Industries is considering launching a new product. The new manufacturing equipment will cost $9 million, and production and sales will require an initial $5 million investment in net operating working capital. The company's tax rate is 40%. a. What is the initial investment outlay? Enter your answer as a positive value. Enter your answer in dollars. For example, an answer of $1.2 million should be entered as $1,200,000. Round your answer to the nearest dollar. $ b. The company spent and expensed $150,000 on research related to the new project last year. Would this change your answer? -Select-, last year's $150,000 expenditure -Select- considered a sunk cost and -Select- v represent an incremental cash flow. c. Rather than build a new manufacturing facility, the company plans to install the equipment in a building it owns but is not now using. The building could be sold for $1.5 million after taxes and real estate commissions. How would this affect your answer? The project's cost wilt -Select- Grade it Now Save & Continue Continue without saving