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You need a new oven for your bakery. Your current oven is worn out so you are trying to decide which one of two ovens to buy as a replacement. Whichever oven you purchase will be replaced after its useful life. Oven A costs $25,000 and costs $3,000 a year to operate over an 8-year life. Oven B costs $20,000 and costs $4,500 a year to operate over a 6-year life. Given this information, which one of the following statements is correct if the applicable discount rate is 10 percent? A) The equivalent annual cost of oven A is -$7,481. B) The equivalent annual cost of oven B is -$8,209. C) Oven A lowers the annual cost by $1,406 as compared to oven B. D) Oven B lowers the annual cost by $1,598 as compared to oven A. |
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