Problem 6 - St. Vincent's Hospital has a target capital structure of 35 percent debt and 65 percent equity. Its cost of equity (fund capital) estimate is 13.5 percent and its cost of tax-exempt debt estimate is 7 percent. What is the hospital's corporate cost of capital?

Cost of capital is 11.22%

Step-by-step explanation:

Given Data:

Wd = weight of debt = 0.35

We = weight of equity = 0.65

Rd = after-tax cost of debt = 7% (tax-exempt debt)

Re = cost of equity = 13.5%

Required:

WACC = weighted average of cost of capital = ?

Solution:

As we know that the WACC is represented by the following equation/

Inserting these values in the equation

Cost of capital is 11.22%

-10i^2-4i

step-by-step explanation:

evaluate for p=2,q=5i

(2−4)(2+5i)i

(2−4)(2+5i)i

=−10i2−4i