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You need a particular piece of equipment for your productionprocess. An? equipment-leasing company has offered to lease theequipment to you for $ 10 comma 500 per year if you sign aguaranteed 5?-year lease? (the lease is paid at the end of each?year). The company would also maintain the equipment for you aspart of the lease.? Alternatively, you could buy and maintain theequipment yourself. The cash flows from doing so are listed below?(the equipment has an economic life of 5 ?years). If your discountrate is 6.7 %?, what should you? do? Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3Year 4 Year 5 negative $ 40 comma 800 negative $ 2 comma 000negative $ 2 comma 000 negative $ 2 comma 000 negative $ 2 comma000 negative $ 2 comma 000 The net present value of the leasingalternative is ?$ nothing. ?(Round to the nearest? dollar.)