An on-demand printing company has monthly overhead costs of $1,900 in rent, $450 in electricity, $80 for phone service, and $230 for advertising and marketing. The printing cost is $40 per thousand pages for paper and ink. The average cost for printing x thousand pages can be represented by the function C¯¯¯¯(x)=2,660+40xxC¯(x)=2,660+40xx . For a given month, if the printing company could print an unlimited number of pages, what value would the average cost per thousand pages approach? What does this mean in the context of the problem?

Burke enterprises is considering a machine costing $30 billion that will result in initial after-tax cash savings of $3.7 billion at the end of the first year, and these savings will grow at a rate of 2 percent per year for 11 years. after 11 years, the company can sell the parts for $5 billion. burke has a target debt/equity ratio of 1.2, a beta of 1.79. you estimate that the return on the market is 7.5% and t-bills are currently yielding 2.5%. burke has two issuances of bonds outstanding. the first has 200,000 bonds trading at 98% of par, with coupons of 5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 5 years. the second has 500,000 bonds trading at par, with coupons of 7.5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 12 years. kate, the ceo, usually applies an adjustment factor to the discount rate of +2 for such highly innovative projects. should the company take on the project?