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WACC: Weighted Average Cost of Capital

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Jungle, Inc., has a target debt;equity ratio of 0.81. Its WACC is 10.5 percent, and the tax rate is 34 percent. (Do not include the percent sign (%). Round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 32.16.)

Required:

(a) If Jungle's cost of equity is 16.5 percent, its pretax cost of debt is _____ percent.

(b) If instead you know the aftertax cost of debt is 5.7 percent, the cost of equity is _____ percent.

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WACC 0.105 (10.5 percent)
Debt equity ratio 0.81
Means
If equity = 1
Debt 0.81
Total capital 1.81

Debt 0.4475 ...

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