What is the company pretax cost and aftertax cost of debt

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Drogo, Inc., is trying to determine its cost of debt. The firm has a debt issue outstanding with 10 years to maturity that is quoted at 108 percent of face value. The issue makes semiannual payments and has an embedded cost of 9 percent annually.

What is the company’s pretax cost of debt? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

  Pretax cost of debt       %

If the tax rate is 35 percent, what is the aftertax cost of debt? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

  Aftertax cost of debt    %

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