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 $4.96 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 7.7%.

a. What is the IRR?

b. The NPV is $4.87 million, which is positive so the NPV rule says to accept the project. Does the IRR rule agree with the NPV rule?