Marine Expeditors has three divisions. Division A is the core of the business and represents 80 percent of the firm's operations. Division B is involved only with contractual short-term projects and therefore has about ten percent less risk than Division A. Division C develops and markets new products and is about ten percent riskier than Division A and about equal in size to Division B. The manager of Division A has suggested that the operations of his division be increased by 10 percent next year. The proposed project should probably be assigned a required return that is equal to _____ percent of the firm's weighted average cost of capital.

The Weighted Average Cost of Capital calculates the required return needed to fund any of the company's projects because it shows the cost of capital of raising funds for that project.

The cost does not increase or decrease based on the proportion of a business that a department is as any department/ project will incur that cost. The cost of the new project will therefore be the same as the company WACC.