The initial cost of a pickup truck is $11,353 and will have a salvage value of $3.724 after five years. Maintenance is estimated to be a uniform gradient amount of $182 per year, with zero dollar for first year maintenance. The operation cost is estimated to be $0.38 per mile for 168 miles per month. If the interest rate is 12%, what is the annual equivalent cost (AEC) for the truck? Enter your answer as follow: 123456

Brawdy Plastics, Inc., produces plastic seat belt retainers for General Motors at their plant in Buffalo, New York. After final assembly and painting, the parts are placed on a conveyor belt that moves the parts past a final inspection station. How fast the parts move past the final inspection station depends upon the line speed of the conveyor belt (feet per minute). Although faster line speeds are desirable, management is concerned that increasing the line speed too much may not provide enough time for inspectors to identify which parts are actually defective. To test this theory, Brawdy Plastics conducted an experiment in which the same batch of parts, with a known number of defective parts, was inspected using a variety of line speeds. The following data were collected. Excel file: data14-05.xlsx Number of Line Defective Speed Parts Found 20 23 20 21 30 19 30 16 40 15 40 17 50 14 50 11 If required onter

A new trailer worth $17,500 is purchased and it's expected that the salvage value after 10 years will be $750. If the interest rate is 4%, what equation would be appropriate to use to determine the Expected Uniform Annual Cost (EUAC)? O A = P(A/P, i, n) - F(P/F, i, n) O A = P(A/P, i, n) - F/n %3D O A -P+F O A - PIA/P, i, n) - F(A/F, i, n)

An integrated, combined cycle power plant produces 285 MW of electricity by gasifying coal. The capital investment for the plant is $530 million, spread evenly over two years. The operating life of the plant is expected to be 18 years. Additionally, the plant will operate at full capacity 76% of the time (downtime is 24% of any given year). The MARR is 7% per year. a. If this plant will make a profit of two cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity sold to the power grid, what is the simple payback period of the plant? Is it a low-risk venture? b. What is the IRR for the plant? Is it profitable? a. The simple payback period of the plant is 14 years. (Round up to one decimal place.) It's a high-risk venture. b. The IRR for the plant is %. (Round to one decimal place.) CHE