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Treads Corporation Is Considering the Purchase of a New Machine

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Treads Corporation is considering the purchase of a new machine to replace an old machine that is currently being used. The old machine is fully depreciated but can be used by the corporation for five more years. If Treads decides to buy the new machine, the old machine can be sold for $60,000. The old machine would have no salvage value in five years.The new machine would be purchased for $1,000,000 in cash. The new machine has an expected useful life of five years with no salvage value. Due to the increased efficiency of the new machine, the company would benefit from annual cash savings of $300,000.Treads Corporation uses a discount rate of 12%. (Ignore income taxes.) Click here to view Exhibit 14B-1 and Exhibit 14B-2, to determine the appropriate discount factor(s) using the tables provided.The internal rate of return of the project is closest to:

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Demand and Supply

Fundamental economic concepts representing the quantity of a good or service consumers are willing and able to purchase and the quantity offered by sellers.

Inferior Good

An inferior good is a type of good whose demand decreases when consumer income rises, unlike normal goods, for which the opposite is observed.

Income

Earnings received by an individual or entity in exchange for labor or investment, typically expressed in monetary terms.

Demand Curve

A pictorial representation that maps out the correlation between a good's price and its demand over an allotted time.