The annual fuel costs required to operate a small solid-waste treatment plant are projected to be $3 million without considering any future inflation. The best estimates indicate that the

annual market interest rate (i) will be 8%. You can find the general inflation rate for each year based on the below table which presents the CPI values over the years (year 0 to year 5). If the plant has a remaining useful life of five years, what is the present equivalent of its fuel costs? You must use actual-dollar analysis (i.e. you must first find the actual dollar values for each annual constant dollar amount). Otherwise, you will not be given any credits.

Year CPI 110 1 130 2 145 3 170 4 150 110