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Purple Lemon Fruit Company has two divisions: one is very risky, and the other exhibits significantly less risk. The company uses its investors’ overall required rate of return to evaluate its investment projects. It is most likely that the firm will become:

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Answer: b. Riskier over time, and its value will decrease

Explanation:

Because the company is using the investor's required rate of return instead of one that takes into account the riskiness of the two division, you find that risk is not being adequately accounted for.

This would lead to a situation where the company becomes riskier because it is not accounting for its risk properly. With higher risk, the company will be unable to seek funding easily which would lead to lower investments being undertaken and an overall decrease in company value.