You Are Trying to Pick the Least-Expensive Machine for Your

question 4

Multiple Choice

You are trying to pick the least-expensive machine for your company. You have two choices: machine A, which will cost $50,000 to purchase and which will have OCF of -$3,500 annually throughout the machine's expected life of three years; and machine B, which will cost $75,000 to purchase and which will have OCF of -$4,900 annually throughout that machine's four-year life. Both machines will be worthless at the end of their life. If you intend to replace whichever type of machine you choose with the same thing when its life runs out, again and again out into the foreseeable future, and if your business has a cost of capital of 14 percent, which one should you choose?

• A)Machine A
• B)Machine B
• C)Both machines A and B
• D)Neither machine A nor B

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Definitions:

Substitute

An alternative option or something that replaces another.

Cash

Physical form of currency, such as coins and banknotes, used to conduct transactions or stored as a financial asset.

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Uncollectible

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