Your factory has been offered a contract to produce a part for a new printer. The contract would last for $3$ years and your cash flows from the contract would be $$5\mathrm{.}03$ million per year. Your upfront setup costs to be ready to produce the part would be $$7\mathrm{.}77$ million. Your discount rate for this contract is $7\mathrm{.}7\%.$

a$.$ What is the IRR?

b$.$ The NPV is $$5\mathrm{.}26$ million, which is positive, so the NPV rule says to accept the project. Does the IRR rule agree with the NPV rule?

a$.$ What is the IRR?

The IRR is $\%.($Round to two decimal places.$)$

b$.$ The NPV is $$5\mathrm{.}26$ million, which is positive so the NPV rule says to accept the project. Does the IRR rule agree with the NPV rule?

The IRR rule $$ with the NPV rule. $($Select from the drop$-$down menu.$)$