Last Tuesday, Cute Camel Woodcraft Company lost a portion of its planning and financial data when both its main and its backup servers

crashed. The company's CFO remembers that the internal rate of return $($IRR$)$ of Project Zeta is $14\mathrm{.}6\%,$ but he can't recall how much

Cute Camel originally invested in the project nor the project's net present value $($NPV$).$ However, he found a note that detailed the

annual net cash flows expected to be generated by Project Zeta. They are:

Year $2$$$3,750,000$

Year $3$$$3,750,000$

Year $4$$$3,750,000$

The CFO has asked you to compute Project Zeta's initial investment using the information currently available to you. He has offered the following

suggestions and observations:

A project's IRR represents the return the project would generate when its NPV is zero or the discounted value of its cash inflows

equals the discounted value of its cash outflows$-$when the cash flows are discounted using the project's IRR.

The level of risk exhibited by Project Zeta is the same as that exhibited by the company's average project, which means that Project

Zeta's net cash flows can be discounted using Cute Camel's $9\%$ WACC.

Given the data and hints, Project Zeta's initial investment is $.$

dollar$).$

$,,$ and its NPV is

$\_($rounded to the nearest whole