Consider how McKnight Valley Brook Park Lodge could use capital budgeting to decide whether the $11,500,000 Brook Park Lodge expansion would be a good investment. Assume McKnight Valley's managers developed the following estimates concerning the expansion: (Click the icon to view the estimates.) Assume that McKnight Valley uses the straight-line depreciation method and expects the lodge expansion to have a residual value of $600,000 at the end of its ten-year life. The average annual net cash inflow from the expansion is expected to be $2,880,750. Compute the payback for the expansion project. Round to one decimal place. Payback years Data table Number of additional skiers per day 115 skiers Average number of days per year that weather conditions allow skiing at McKnight Valley 150 days Useful life of expansion (in years) 10 years Average cash spent by each skier per day $ 243 Average variable cost of serving each skier per day 76 Cost of expansion 11,500,000 Discount rate 12% Print Done