Your Company is considering a new project that will require $970,000 of new equipment at the start of the project. The equipment will have a depreciable life of 7 years and will be depreciated to a book value of $448,500 using straight-line depreciation. The cost of capital is 12%, and the firm's tax rate is 30%. Estimate the present value of the tax benefits from depreciation (closest to).

a)$102,000

b)$52,150

c)$74,500

d)$22,350

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