The Mead Meals on Wheels Center (MMWC) provides meals every day to the homebound elderly. The city of Wabash pays MMWC $32 per week for each person it serves. There is no shortage of demand for MMWC's services among the elderly citizens of Wabash, and MMWC can find qualified recipients for as many meals as it can deliver. Each person helped by MMWC receives two hot meals per day, seven days per week, for a total of 14 meals every week. To service the contract, MMWC has a central kitchen that has the capacity to produce a maximum of 9,600 meals per day. It costs MMWC an average of $36,000 per week to operate the kitchen and other central facilities regardless of the number of meals that MMWC serves. This covers all of MMWC's fixed costs (e.g., rent, equipment costs, and its personnel including administrative staff) as well as its fixed seasonal service contract costs (utilities, snow removal, etc.). The first problem that MMWC faces is figuring out how much it can afford to spend per person, per week for food to supply the program. Food is MMWC's only variable expense. You are MMWC's only program analyst. During the year, you conducted an analysis of MMWC's kitchen operations and determined that you could increase the capacity of the kitchen to 10,400 meals per day. You see a chance to increase the number of meals that MMWC can deliver to the elderly, as well as a way to increase your weekly revenue. However, expanding the kitchen's capacity will require you to purchase $700,000 worth of equipment. The equipment has a useful life of five years. The executive director is interested in any idea that will expand service delivery. But, she is concerned about being able to pay for the equipment. She tells you that MMWC's cost of capital is 9 percent and asks if MMWC should purchase the equipment. Question 4: What do you tell her? Support your recommendation and present your findings in a way that the executive director will understand. a. Assuming that you pay your suppliers quarterly and that you are paid by Wabash quarterly, what would you recommend doing? b. Would your answer be different if you were paid by Wabash and pay your suppliers weekly? Annually