=+would purchase two of them. Another alternative is to purchase three additional mowers of the current type to add to his current equipment. Those would cost $475 apiece.

Or he could face the coming gardening season with his existing equipment. Shawn estimates that in a good growing M23_SHAR8696_03_SE_C23.indd 854 14/07/14 8:05 AM Exercises 855 season, the tractors would allow him to expand his business by $40,000. But if the summer is hot and dry (so lawns don’t grow) or cold and wet (ditto), he’d only be able to