Your factory has been offered a contract to produce a part for a new printer. The contract would last for three years, and your cash flows from the contract would be $5.07 million per year. Your upfront setup costs to be ready to produce the part would be $7.98 million. Your discount rate for this contract is 8.2%.

a. What is the IRR? (round to two decimal places)

b. The NPV is $5.04 million, which is positive so the NPV rule says to accept the project. Does the IRR rule agree with the NPV rule?