Suppose Your Firm Is Considering Two Mutually Exclusive, Required Projects

question 46

Multiple Choice

Suppose your firm is considering two mutually exclusive, required projects with the cash flows shown as follows. The required rate of return on projects of both of their risk class is 10 percent, and the maximum allowable payback and discounted payback statistic for the projects are two and a half and three and a half years, respectively. $$\begin{array} { | l | c | c | c | c | } \hline \text { Time } & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 \\\hline \text { Project A Cash Flow } & - 1,000 & 300 & 400 & 700 \\\text { Project B Cash Flow } & - 500 & 200 & 400 & 300 \\\hline\end{array}$$

• A)Accept both A and B
• B)Accept neither A nor B
• C)Accept A, reject B
• D)Reject A, accept B

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Definitions:

Pessimistic Time

The “worst” activity time that could be expected in a PERT network.

Unfavorable Conditions

Circumstances or situations that are detrimental to the success, operation, or performance of a process, project, or activity.

Activity Variance

The difference between budgeted and actual cost or time spent on a particular activity, highlighting variances in performance.

Beta Distribution

A family of continuous probability distributions defined on the interval [0, 1] used to model a variety of variables that are bounded on both sides.