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Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?

Zendor company wants to have $200,000 available in august 2021 to make an equipment purchase. to be able to have this amount available, zendor will make equal annual deposits in an investment account earning 12% annually in june 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. what is the dollar amount that must be deposited each of those years to achieve this objective?