The United Printing Company, Inc. is considering buying a new web press. It will cost a total of $$7$ M to completely install the machine. The first year they had a net cash flow of $$17$ M$.$ The next year the net was $$6$ M$.$ Because of industry problems, they had to add more equipment in each of the next two year at a net cost and again had positive cash flow for years $5$ and $6.$ Here is a chart of the cash flows.Question Statement:

The United Printing Company, Inc. is considering buying a new web press. It will cost a total of $$7M$ to completely install the machine.

The first year they had a net cash flow of $$17M.$ The next year the net was $$6M.$ Because of industry problems, they had to add more

equipment in each of the next two year at a net cost and again had positive cash flow for years $5$ and $6.$ Here is a chart of the cash

flows.

How many possible rates of return could this data have?

Estimate the possible rates of return between $0\%$ and $90\%$ using a chart in a spreadsheet such as Excel.

a$.$ Number of possible rates of return: $0$ none

b$.$ Number of possible rates of return: $3$ Possible RORs: $10\%,40\%,$ and $82\mathrm{.}5\%$

c$.$ Number of possible rates of return: $3$ Possible RORs: $89\%$

d$.$ Number of possible rates of return: $2$ Possible RORs: $4\%$ and $47\%.$