Your best friend is in a senior position of the finance department of Teenie Tiny and you are having lunch together after a round at the golf course.The discussion gets around to the fact that Teenie Tiny will lose their tax-exempt status and your friend mentions that all the debt that the company needs will be financed using bonds with a 5 percent coupon.However, you remember that during a lecture at SMU, it was mentioned that as a company issues more and more debt, the risk for the bondholders will increase and bondholders will require coupon interest rates to increase as the amount of debt increases.You have prepared the following table to assist in answering these questions:

Value of Debt R_D Beta

0 5.0% 1.392500

250,000 5.5% 1.483015

500,000 6.0% 1.542274

750,000 6.5% 1.607016

1,000,000 7.0% 1.678038

1,250,000 9.0% 1.756303

1,500,000 11.0% 1.842075

1,750,000 13.0% 1.939488

2,000,000 15.0% 2.047619

a)Calculate the required rate of return for the un-levered firm.

b)Calculate the market value of the un-levered firm in proposition

c)Calculate the WACC for an un-levered firm in proposition II.

d.Using the information from the table, calculate the value of the firm (proposition I), cost of equity, and the WACC (proposition II) each level of debt.

e)Calculate the Value of the firm World War III, Value of the Firm World War II and the Present Value of Distress (World War III - World War II) for each Value of Debt.

f)Graph (on 2 separate graphs) the information for proposition I and proposition II.

g)Briefly explain the amount of debt the company should use as a levered company.

To maximize the value of the firm and to minimize the WACC for the firm, the unlevered firm should issue $1,000,000 of debt.