Consider a firm with a contract to sell an asset for $115,000 three years from now. The asset costs $76,000 to produce today. Given a relevant discount rate on this asset of 13 percent per year, will the firm make a profit on this asset? At what rate does the firm just break even?

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Consider a firm with a contract to sell an
asset for $115,000 three years from now. The asset costs $76,000 to produce today.
Given a relevant discount rate on this asset of 13 percent per year, will the firm make
a profit on this asset? At what rate does the firm just break even?

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