A machine has a purchase cost of $10,000. End-of-year book values, salvage values, and annual O&M costs

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A machine has a purchase cost of $10,000. End-of-year book values, salvage values, and annual O&M costs are provided over its useful life as follows: Year-End Book Value Salvage Value Operating Costs $8,000 $1,500 $5,300 $4,800 $2,100 $3,900 $2,700 $2,880 $2,800 $1,728

(a) Determine the economic life of the machine if the MARR is 15% and the marginal tax rate is 40%.
(b) Determine the economic life of the machine if the MARR is changed to 10% and the marginal tax rate remains at 40%.

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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