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question 70

Multiple Choice

Use the information for the question(s) below.
Shepard Industries is evaluating a proposal to expand its current distribution facilities. Management has projected the project will produce the following cash flows for the first two years (in millions) .

-The depreciation tax shield for Shepard Industries project in year two is closest to:

• A) $84
• B) $196
• C) $72
• D) $96

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Definitions:

Average Time

The mean time taken to complete a task or process, calculated by summing all the recorded times and dividing by the number of observations.

Arrival Rate

The frequency at which entities (e.g., customers, data packets) arrive at a specific point within a system or process.

Poisson Distribution

A distribution of probabilities indicating the likelihood of a certain number of occurrences within a specified time or space interval.

Exponential Distribution

A probability distribution used to model the time between events in a process where events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate.