Blake Company has 3400 hourly workers. They work 40 hours a week, at the rate of $7.00 an hour, and they are paid every Friday. The company has decided to pay them twice a month. The cost of printing and processing each check is $1.25. The cost of capital to the company is 14%. Find the present value of the annual savings created by this decision. Find the value added to the company by this procedure.

The answers are $178,272, and $1.452 million I don't know how the instructer got them.