A borrower takes out a 5/1 Hybrid ARM for $200,000 with an initial contract interest rate of 3.5%. The interest rate will adjust according to the 1 yr LIBOR rate, plus a margin of 2%. At the first reset date, 1 yr LIBOR is at 1%. What will the borrowers’ monthly payment be immediately after the first reset? (State the payment as a positive number. Unless otherwise stated, you can assume 5/1 ARMs have a term of 30 years. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Wisconsin snowmobile corp. is considering a switch to level production. cost efficiencies would occur under level production, and after tax costs would decline by $36,000, but inventory would increase by $300,000. wisconsin snowmobile would have to finance the extra inventory at a cost of 13.5 percent. a. determine the extra cost or savings of switching over to level production. should the company go ahead and switch to level production? b how low would interest rates need to fall before level production would be feasible?