Fox Co. is considering an investment that will have the following sales, variable costs, and fixed operating costs: Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Unit sales 3,500 4,000 4,200 4,250 Sales price $38.50 $39.88 $40.15 $41.55 Variable cost per unit $22.34 $22.85 $23.67 $23.87 $39,560 Fixed operating costs except depreciation $37,000 $37,500 $38,120 Accelerated depreciation rate 33% 45% 15% 7% This project will require an investment of $25,000 in new Determine what the project's net present value (NPV) equipment. The equipment will have no salvage value at would be when using accelerated depreciation. the end of the project's four-year life. Fox pays a O $43,646 O $36,372 O $41,828 O $32,735 constant tax rate of 40 % , and it has a weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of 11%. Determine what the project's net present value (NPV) would be when using accelerated depreciation. Now determine what the project's NPV would be when using straight-line depreciation. Using the depreciation method will result in the highest NPV for the project. No other firm would take on this project if Fox turns it down. How much should Fox reduce the NPV of this project if it discovered that this project would reduce one of its division's net after-tax cash flows by $400 for each year of the four-year project? O $1,241 O $1,055 O $1,365 O $745 Fox spent $2,500 on a marketing study to estimate the number of units that it can sell each year. What should Fox do to take this information into account? O Increase the amount of the initial investment by $2,500. O The company does not need to do anything with the cost of the marketing study because the marketing study is a sunk cost O Increase the NPV of the project $2,500