Worldwide Widget Manufacturing, Inc., is doing so well it decides it's time to become an international company. As the chief financial officer $($CFO$),$ you're tasked with raising $$340$ million of new capital to open offices around the world. In researching the matter, you learn that if bonds due in $20$ years are used for raising the capital,they'll be rated A and will need to offer a yield of $6\mathrm{.}5$ percent. How many bonds will it be necessary to issue to raise the needed capital? What will Worldwide Widget Manufacturing have to make as a semiannual interest rate payment?