Lease Vs Buy

Your landscaping company can lease a truck for $$8,600,00$ a year for $6$ years. It can instead buy the truck for $$39,247\mathrm{.}49.$ The truck will be valueless after $6$ years.

a$.$ What is the present value of the lease payments, If the interest rate your company can earn on its funds is $12\mathrm{.}00\%.($Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to $2$ decimal places.$)$

Present value

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b$.$ Is it cheaper to buy or lease?

lease

buy