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The Graham Telephone Company may invest in new switching equipment. Calculate expected return and risk measured by standard deviation associated with proposal.
What is the expected annual savings and the expected PW? Do the answers for the expected PW match? Why or why not?
What is the PW for each estimated value? What is the expected PW? Compute the expected annual savings and expected PW.
What is the expected PW the expansion costs? What is the expected number of years until the expansion?
What is the expected value of the present worth? Compute the expected value for annual savings, and the corresponding present worth.
What is the expected value of the rate of return? Compute the expected value for the life, and the corresponding rate of return.
Compute the expected value for the number of miles, and the corresponding equivalent uniform annual cost. Do the answers to (a) and (b) match? Why or why not?
In addition, the bettor receives back the original $5 bet. Estimate how much money the man is expected to win or lose in Atlantic City.
If the firm's interest rate is 12%, how long would the corrosion-resistant parts have to last to be more cost-effective?
Using breakeven analysis and an interest rate of 12%, determine the maximum purchase price that could be paid for the required machinery.
Determine the number of souvenir coins that must be sold per year to justify the purchase of a $6000 stamping machine.
What must the annual royalty for rights to use a new invention be to justify proceeding with development? The development period will be 2 years.
How many widgets must be needed by Acme Manufacturing per year to justify buying the required machinery for widget manufacturing for $10K?
What is the minimum mileage per day that she must spend visiting job sites to justify paying the higher rate? How many miles is this over the 2 weeks?
The voice-mail system in Problem 8.22 incur training and inefficiency costs of $2500 the first month, $1500 the second month. What is the payback period now?
What is the payback for an automated voice-mail system that will cost $25K to install and $300 per month to operate?
The plant will last 40 years, and the electric authority uses a 3% interest rate. Determine the benefit/cost ratio. Determine the payback period for the plant.
Fringe benefits (vacation, sick leave, insurance, etc.) cost the hospital 42% of each annual salary. Determine the payback period for the new switchboard.
Determine the payback period in months if the press can produce 120 gross of bars each month and each bar is sold for $.96 and costs $.42 to produce.
A new plant can be constructed from the ground up. Determine the future value at the end of year 3 for each alternative at an interest rate of 15%.
How much value per year must you put on protecting your survivors for these to be equivalent?
Calculate the future worth (FW) at 10% of a project that will save $25K per year for 20 years. The first cost is $120K, and the salvage value is $20K.
Annual savings due to an energy efficiency project have a most likely value of $30,000. What is the expected value for the annual savings?
If the probability of an accident or moving violation is 20% per year, what is the probability distribution of your extra insurance payments over next 4 years?
The state's interest rate is 8%, and the road should last 40 years. What is the probability distribution of the equivalent annual construction cost per mile?