Replacement Decisions [LO2] Your small remodeling business has two work vehicles. One is a small passenger car used for job-site visits and for other general business purposes. The other is a heavy truck used to haul equipment. The car gets 25 miles per gallon (mpg). The truck gets 10 mpg. You want to improve gas mileage to save money, and you have enough money to upgrade one vehicle. The upgrade cost will be the same for both vehicles. An upgraded car will get 40 mpg; an upgraded truck will get 12.5 mpg. The cost of gasoline is $3.70 per gallon. Assuming an upgrade is a good idea in the first place, which one should you upgrade? Both vehicles are driven 12,000 miles per year.
Replacement Decisions [LO2] Your small remodeling business has two work vehicles. One is a small passenger car used for job-site visits and for other general business purposes. The other is a heavy truck used to haul equipment. The car gets 25 miles per gallon (mpg). The truck gets 10 mpg. You want to improve gas mileage to save money, and you have enough money to upgrade one vehicle. The upgrade cost will be the same for both vehicles. An upgraded car will get 40 mpg; an upgraded truck will get 12.5 mpg. The cost of gasoline is $3.70 per gallon. Assuming an upgrade is a good idea in the first place, which one should you upgrade? Both vehicles are driven 12,000 miles per year.
Solution Summary: The author explains how Person X must upgrade his truck to save money.
Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Bradford D Jordan Professor
Replacement Decisions [LO2] Your small remodeling business has two work vehicles. One is a small passenger car used for job-site visits and for other general business purposes. The other is a heavy truck used to haul equipment. The car gets 25 miles per gallon (mpg). The truck gets 10 mpg. You want to improve gas mileage to save money, and you have enough money to upgrade one vehicle. The upgrade cost will be the same for both vehicles. An upgraded car will get 40 mpg; an upgraded truck will get 12.5 mpg. The cost of gasoline is $3.70 per gallon. Assuming an upgrade is a good idea in the first place, which one should you upgrade? Both vehicles are driven 12,000 miles per year.
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Your small remodeling business has two work vehicles. One is a small passenger car used for job site visits and for other general business purposes. The other is a heavy truck used to haul equipment. The car gets 25 miles per gallon (mpg). The truck gets 10 mpg. You want to improve gas mileage to save money, and you have enough money to upgrade one vehicle. The upgrade cost will be the same for both vehicles. An upgraded car will get 40 mpg; an upgraded truck will get 12.5 mpg. The cost of gasoline is $2.65 per gallon.
Suppose you drive the truck 12,000 miles per year. How many miles would you have to drive the car before upgrading the car would be the better choice?
Number of miles:????????
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Your company has been approached to bid on a contract to sell 5,000 voice recognition (VR) computer keyboards per year for four years. Due to technological improvements, beyond that time they will be outdated and no sales will be possible. The…
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Your small remodeling business has two work vehicles. One is a small passenger car
used for job-site visits and for other general business purposes. The other is a heavy
truck used to haul equipment. The car gets 25 miles per gallon (mpg). The truck gets 10
mpg. You want to improve gas mileage to save money, and you have enough money to
upgrade one vehicle. The upgrade cost will be the same for both vehicles. An upgraded
car will get 40 mpg; an upgraded truck will get 12.5 mpg. The cost of gasoline is $3.60
per gallon. Calculate the annual fuel savings, in gallons, for the truck and car assuming
both vehicles are driven 11,000 miles per year. (Round your answers to 2 decimal
places, e.g., 32.16.)
Truck
Car
Fuel savings
O Truck
O Car
gallons per year
gallons per year
Assuming an upgrade is a good idea in the first place, which one should you upgrade?
Both vehicles are driven 11,000 miles per year.
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