You are an entrepreneur starting a biotechnology firm. If your research is successful, the technology can be sold for $26 million. If your research is unsuccessful, it will be worth nothing. To fund your research, you need to raise $3.8 million. Investors are willing to provide you with $3.8 million in initial capital in exchange for 40% of the unlevered equity in the firm.

a. What is the total market value of the firm without leverage?

b.Suppose you borrow $0.8 million. According to MM, what fraction of the firm's equity will you need to sell to raise the additional $3.0 million you need?

c. What is the value of your share of the firm's equity in cases

(a)

and

(b)?

a. What is the total market value of the firm without leverage?

The market value without leverage is

$nothing

million.(Round to one decimal place.)

b.

Suppose you borrow

$ 0.8$0.8

million. According to MM, what fraction of the firm's equity will you need to sell to raise the additional

$ 3.0$3.0

million you need?The fraction of the firm's equity you will need to sell is

nothing%.

(Round to the nearest whole percentage.)c. What is the value of your share of the firm's equity in cases

(a)

and

(b)?

The value of your share of the firm's equity:

Case

(a)

is

$nothing

million.(Round to one decimal place.)Case

(b)

is

$nothing

million.(Round to one decimal place.)