You are offered a chance to buy an asset for $4500 that is expected to produce cash flows of $750 at the end of Year 1, $1000 at the end of Year 2, $850 at the end of Year 3 and $6,250 at the end of year 4. What rate of return would you earn if you bought this asset.

22.64%

Explanation:

Given that

Buyed value of an asset = $4,500

Projected cash flows

For year 1 = $750

For year 2 = $1,000

For year 3 = $850

For year 4 = $6,250

So, the rate of return i.e internal rate of return is

We assume the internal rate of return be X%

$4,500 = $750 ÷ (1.0x) + $1000 ÷ (1.0x)^2 +$850 ÷ (1.0x)^3 + $6,250 ÷ (1.0x)^4

After solving this, the rate of return is 22.64%

answer; ///i believe the correct answer is (c) laissez-faire;

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.