You are in the process of purchasing a new automobile that will cost you $27,500. The dealership is offering you either a $2500 rebate (applied toward the purchase price) or 1.9% financing for 48 months (with payments made at the end of the month). You have been pre-approved for an auto loan through your local credit union at an interest rate of 6.5% for 48 months. If you take the $2500 rebate and finance your new car through your credit union your monthly payments will be closest to:

Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?