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Your firm is interested in selling a new type of headphone. Themachinery to build these headphones costs $300,000 (at year 0) andwill be used for 10 years. At the end of these 10 years, themachine is worth nothing. The price of these headphones is $175 andthe cost to produce each pair is $45. There are annual (years 1through 10) fixed costs of $320,000 to produce the headphones. Youwill depreciate the machine using straightline depreciation. Theappropriate discount rate is 13% and your firm's marginal tax rateis 35%. Use GOALSEEK to find the minimum number ofheadphones you need to sell each year in order to breakeven (i.e.have an NPV of zero).Hint: You are going to have to find the annual free cash flow(FCF) produced by this project each year.