Sunny Day Manufacturing Company is considering investing in a one-year project that requires an initial investment of $500,000. To do so, it will have to issue new common stock and will incur a flotation cost of 2.00%. At the end of the year, the project is expected to produce a cash inflow of $550,000. The rate of return that Sunny Day expects to earn on its project (net of its flotation costs) is ___ (rounded to two decimal places).

4.70%

6.66%

5.10%

7.84%