2. A welder and a carpenter decided to get out of the construction industry and build farm trailers instead. From building a few trailers on weekends, they estimated that the first trailer would take about $700 of their own labor to build and that an 85 percent learning rate can be anticipated on the cumulative average time as each trailer is built. (Note: They decided that their hourly wages should be no less than those they received in the construction trades.) The material costs for each trailer will be about $500, and the craftsmen do not see any way that this can be reduced. They estimate that each trailer can be sold for $1,000. In addition to making their wages on labor, they want to make 15 percent profit on the trailer materials. How many trailers must be built before this rate of profit can be realized

Variable rate cd’s = $90 treasury bills = $150 discount loans = $20 treasury notes = $100 fixed rate cds = $160 money market deposit accts. = $140 savings deposits = $90 fed funds borrowing = $40 variable rate mortgage loans $140 demand deposits = $40 primary reserves = $50 fixed rate loans = $210 fed funds lending = $50 equity capital = $120 a. develop a balance sheet from the above data. be sure to divide your balance sheet into rate-sensitive assets and liabilities as we did in class and in the examples. b. perform a standard gap analysis and a duration analysis using the above data if you have a 1.15% decrease in interest rates and an average duration of assets of 5.4 years and an average duration of liabilities of 3.8 years. c. indicate if this bank will remain solvent after the valuation changes. if so, indicate the new level of equity capital after the valuation changes. if not, indicate the amount of the shortage in equity capital.