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Please answer accurately. This question has been answered incorrectly twice. I just need the first 2 parts. Thank you. Required information In order to provide

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Required information In order to provide drinking water as part of its 50-year plan, a west coast city is considering constructing a pipeline for importing water from a nearby community that has a plentiful supply of brackish ground water. A full-sized pipeline can be constructed at a cost of $110 million now. Alternatively, a smaller pipeline can be constructed now for $80 million and enlarged 19 years from now for another $100 million. The pumping cost will be $25,000 per year higher for the smaller pipeline during the first 19 years, but it will be approximately the same thereafter. Both pipelines are expected to have the same useful life with no salvage value. At an interest rate of 10% per year, which alternative is more economical? The present worth of the full-sized pipeline is determined to be $ sized pipeline is $ and that of the small- The (Click to select) pipeline is the most economical pipeline

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