Millennium Laboratories Can License One of Its Patented Pharmaceutical Products

Multiple Choice

Millennium Laboratories can license one of its patented pharmaceutical products to a Japanese company for a five-year period. Millennium would like to insure that the fee it charges to the Japanese company will return no less than what the company projects it could have made had it marketed the product itself. Millennium believes it could have achieved a minimum of $400,000 in the first year, $10,500,000 in the second year, and $50 million, $65 million and $65 million at the end of each year. Given that interest rates are at 9%, what up-front fee paid immediately should Millennium charge?

A) $122,508,000
B) $136,107,000
C) $148,357,000
D) $157,502,000
E) $190,900,000