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Joe's Hardware is adding a new product line that will require an investment of $ 1,512,000. Managers estimate that this investment will have a​ 10-year life and generate net cash inflows of $ 310,000 the first​ year, $ 270,000 the second​ year, and $ 230,000 each year thereafter for eight years. Compute the payback period. Round to one decimal place.

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Answer:

6.05 years

Step-by-step explanation:

Payback period is the time in which a project returns back the initial investment in the form of net cash flow. For this purpose we use the net cash flows to calculate the payback.

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Joe's Hardware is adding a new product line that will require an investment of $ 1,512,000. Managers-example-1
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