Buffalo Drumsticks Is Evaluating a Proposal to Open a Restaurant

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Multiple Choice

Buffalo Drumsticks is evaluating a proposal to open a restaurant in Bermuda.The restaurant will cost $29 million to open.Expected cash flows are $8 million per year for the first five years.At the end of 5 years,the government of Bermuda will either revoke BD's permit and the restaurant will close,or renew the permit indefinitely.If the permit is revoked,the building and equipment can be sold for $10,000,000.If the permit is renewed,assume that the $8 million turns into a perpetuity.There is a 30% chance the permit will be revoked and a 70% chance it will be renewed.Compute the expected NPV of the project.Use a discount rate of 12%.

• A)$37.66 million
• B)($15.16 million)
• C)$28.02 million
• D)$18.86 million

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Explore how the Internet's structure and culture facilitate unique challenges and opportunities for media distribution and consumption, distinguishing it from traditional mass media.

Evaluate the responses of media conglomerates to digital piracy and their efforts to control content distribution.

Examine the role of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks in transforming how music and media are shared online.

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