1. The past five monthly returns for Kohl’s are 3.60 percent, 3.77 percent, 1.74 percent, 9.28 percent, and 2.62 percent. Compute the standard deviation of Kohls’ monthly returns. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places.)
2. Wiley is considering a new printing press. It costs $1058000. It has a useful life of 5 years. They expect it will cost them $504000 per year to operate. After 5 years its salvage value will be $143000. Assuming it can always be replaced at the same cost and the companies MARR is 16.8% per year. Use a Capitalized worth Analysis to find the present cost of keeping the machine forever?