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The Borstal Company has to choose between two machines that do the same job but have different lives. The two machines have the following costs: These costs are expressed in real terms. a. Suppose you are Borstal's financial manager. If you had to buy one or the other machine and rent it to the production manager for that machine's economic life, what annual rental payment would you have to charge? Assume a 7% real discount rate and ignore taxes. Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a positive value rounded to 2 decimal places. b. Which machine should Borstal buy? c. If there is steady 5% per year inflation, what will be the annual rental payment for machine B for the second year? Note: Enter your answer as a positive value rounded to 2 decimal places. A game of chance offers the following odds and payoffs. Each play of the game costs $100, so the net profit per play is the payoff less $100. a-1. What is the expected cash payoff? (Round your answer to the nearest whole dollar amount.) a-2. What is the expected rate of return? (Enter your answer as a percent rounded to the nearest whole number.) b-1. What is the variance of the expected returns? (In the calculation, use the percentage values, not the decimal values for the rates of return. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) b-2. What is the standard deviation of the expected returns? (Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) Answer is complete but not entirely correct