Estimating Cost of Capital Measures US Steel has $3.16 billion in total debt (which approximates its market value). Interest expense for the year was about $214.0 million. The company’s market capitalization is approximately $1.17 billion, its market beta is 2.65, and its assumed tax rate is 37%. Assume that the risk-free rate equals 2.5% and the market premium equals 5%

Rounding Instructions: Do not round until your final answers. Round answers to one decimal place.

(a) Estimate US Steel's cost of debt capital. Answer %

(c) Estimate US Steel's cost of equity capital. Answer %

(d) Using your rounded answers from (a) and (c) above, estimate US Steel's weighted average cost of capital.

Laval produces lamps and home lighting fixtures. its most popular product is a brushed aluminum desk lamp. this lamp is made from components shaped in the fabricating department and assembled in the assembly department. information related to the 22,000 desk lamps produced annually follows.direct materials $280,000direct labor fabricating department (8,000 dlh × $24 per dlh) $192,000assembly department (16,600 dlh × $26 per dlh) $431,600machine hours fabricating department $15,200mhassembly department $20,850mhexpected overhead cost and related data for the two production departments follow.fabricating assemblydirect labor hours 150,000dlh 295,000dlhmachine hours 161,000mh 128,000mhoverhead cost $400,000 430,000required1. determine the plantwide overhead rate for laval using direct labor hours as a base.2. determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate.3. compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the fabricating department and direct labor hours in the assembly department.4. use departmental overhead rates from requirement 3 to determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamps.