What information does the payback period provide?

Suppose you are evaluating a project with the expected future cash inflows shown in the following table. Your boss has asked you to calculate the

project's net present value $($NPV$).$ You don't know the project's initial cost, but you do know the project's regular, or conventional, payback period is

$2\mathrm{.}50$ years.

If the project's weighted average cost of capital $($WACC$)$ is $8\%,$ the project's NPV $($rounded to the nearest dollar$)$ is:

$$410,143$

$$375,965$

$$341,786$

$$290,518$