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ABC Company is considering a number of projects which are mutually exclusive. It has $500,000 available for investment. The details of these projects are shown below: Project Life Payback Period NPV IRR PI Cost of capital Investment 3 years 2.5 vears 3.2 years 3.6 vears 36,256 18.91% 1.12 12% 300,000 3 years 2,2 years 48,265 21 .26% 1.16 12% 300,000 4 years 4 years 66,194 2 1.86% 1.165 14% 400,000 29,220 16.37% 11% 250,000 Your colleague suggest that Project D should be taken up if the company uses payback period method while it should take up Project B if NPV or IRR are used. Appraise (a) Define what is payback period and why it is not appropriate decision criteria in this case