Fresh Flour Makes Baking Flour and Sells Its Flour in 4

Multiple Choice

Fresh Flour makes baking flour and sells its flour in 4 pound sacks or bags. The managers of Fresh Flour are considering whether the firm should make or buy the flour sacks. To make the sacks, Fresh Flour needs a $500,000 piece of equipment. Using this equipment, Fresh Flour can make a flour sack for $0.01 and, for simplicity, ignore taxes and assume that the $0.01 cost includes depreciation and all other costs. Fresh Flour would finance the $500,000 investment using its own funds and, if it purchased the flour sacks from another firm, it would pay $0.19 a flour sack. The life span of the equipment is 10 years and it has no salvage value at the end of the ten years. The discount rate is 6 percent. How many flour sacks does Fresh Flour need each year in order for the net present value to be positive?

A) 377,416
B) 412,369
C) 259,666
D) 352,589