Talbot Industries is considering launching a new product. The new manufacturing equipment will cost $17 million, and production and sales will require an initial $2 million investment in net operating working capital. The company's tax rate is 25%. Enter your answers as a positive values. Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $10,550,000 should be entered as 10.55. Round your answers to two decimal places.

a. What is the initial investment outlay? $ ____________ million

The company spent and expensed $150,000 on research related to the new project last year. What is the initial investment outlay?

$_________ million

Rather than build a new manufacturing facility, the company plans to install the equipment in a building it owns but is not now using. The building could be sold for $1.4 million after taxes and real estate commissions. What is the initial investment outlay?

$________________ million