of a ight ilar of an 10,000 miles. The salvage value after 5 years of use drops about 8% per mile. Find the equivalent uniform annual cost if the interest rate is 8%. How much does this change if the annual mileage is 15,000? 5000? A heat exchanger is being installed as part of a plant modernization program. It costs $80,000, including installation, and is expected to reduce the overall plant fuel cost by $20,000 per year. Estimates of the useful life of the heat exchanger range from an optimistic 12 years to a pessimistic 4 years. The most likely value is 5 years. Assume the heat exchanger has no salvage value at the end of its useful life. (a) Determine the pessimistic, most likely, and opti- mistic rates of return. (b) Use the range of estimates to compute the mean life and determine the estimated before-tax rate of return. life le- tal Etic ing nat