Automobile repair shops typically remind customers to change their oil and oil filter every 3,000 miles. Let's
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To conserve a nonrenewable and valuable resource, you decide to follow Strategy 2 and change your oil every 5,000 miles (you are conservative). You drive an average of 15,000 miles per year, and you expect each oil change to cost $30. Usually you drive your car 90,000 Smiles before trading it in on a new one.
a. Develop an EOY cash-flow diagram for each strategy.
b. If your personal MARR is 10% per year, how much will you save with Strategy 2 over Strategy 1, expressed as a lump sum at the present time?
MARR
Minimum Acceptable Rate of Return (MARR), or hurdle rate is the minimum rate of return on a project a manager or company is willing to accept before starting a project, given its risk and the opportunity cost of forgoing other...
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Engineering Economy
ISBN: 978-0132554909
15th edition
Authors: William G. Sullivan, Elin M. Wicks, C. Patrick Koelling
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