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The Stanton Stationery Shoppe wants to acquire The
Carlysle Card Gallery for $450,000. Stanton expects the merger to provide incremental earnings
of about $70,000 a year for 10 years. Carol Stanton has calculated the marginal cost of
capital for this investment to be 8%. Conduct a capital budgeting analysis for Stanton to
determine whether she should purchase The Carlysle Card Gallery.
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