Kintel, Inc., management wants to raise $1 million by issuing six-year zero coupon bonds with a face value of $1,000. The company’s investment banker states that investors would use an 8.9 percent discount rate to value such bonds. Assume semiannual coupon payments. At what price would these bonds sell in the marketplace? (Round intermediate calculations to 4 decimal places, e.g. 1.2514 and Bond price to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25)

How many bonds would the firm have to issue to raise $1 million?