Engineering Economy (1) 16th Edition solutions

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Identify at least five areas of personal finances in which engineering economic analysis can be used by you in the future.

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Durco Automotive needs a $1 million balance in its contingency fund 3 years from now. The CFO (chief financial officer) wants to know how much to deposit now into Durcos high-yield investment account. Determine the amount if it grows at a rate of 20% per year (a) simple interest, and (b) compound int

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How much will Kingston Technologies have to pay each year in eight equal payments, starting 2 years from now, to repay a $900,000 loan? The interest rate is 8% per year.

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Another name for noneconomic attributes is: (a) Sustainability (b) Intangible factors (c) Equivalence (d) Evaluation criteria

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4 Bucknell, Inc. uses the calendar year as its fiscal year. Determine the total net cash flow recorded at the end of the fiscal year.

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A rotary engine is the essence of a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) personal aircraft known as the Moller Skycar M400. It is a flying car known as a personal air vehicle (PAV) and it is expected to make its first untethered flight in 2020. The PAV has been under development for 30 years at a tota

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Abby purchased 100 shares of her dads favorite stock for $25.80 per share exactly 1 year ago, commission free. She sold it today for a total amount of $2865. She plans to invest the entire amount in a different corporations stock today, but must now pay a $50 commission fee. If she plans to sell this

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A $10,000 loan amortized over 5 years at an interest rate of 10% per year requires payments of $2638 to completely remove the loan when interest is charged on the unrecovered balance of the principal. If interest is charged on the original principal instead of the unrecovered balance, what is the loa

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Identify the compounding period for the following interest statements: (a) 1% per week; (b) 2.5 % per quarter; and (c) 8.5% per year, compounded semi annually.

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Pittsburgh Custom Products (PCP) purchased a new machine for ram cambering large I beams. PCP expects to bend 80 beams at $2000 per beam in each of the first 3 years, after which it expects to bend 100 beams per year at $2500 per beam through year 8. If the companys minimum attractive rate of return

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Use economic equivalence to determine the amount of money or value of i that makes the following statements correct. (a) $5000 today is equivalent to $4275 exactly 1year ago at i = ___% per year. (b) A car that costs $28,000 today will cost $____ a year from now at i = 4% per year. (c) At i = 4% per

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Prudential Realty has an escrow account for one of its property management clients that contains $20,000. How long will it take to deplete the account if the client withdraws $5000 now, $4500 one year from now, and amounts decreasing by $500 each year? Assume the account earns interest at a rate of 8

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Loadstar Sensors is a company that makes load/ force sensors based on capacitive sensing technology. For a major plant expansion project, the company wants to have $30 million 5 years from now. If the company already has $15 million in an investment account for the expansion, how much more must the c

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DubaiWorks manufactures angular contact ball bearings for pumps that operate in harsh environments. The company invested $2.4 million in a process that resulted in net profits of $760,000 per year for five consecutive years. What rate of return did the company make?

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Assume the MARR is 10% per year for this analysis. A presently owned machine that was purchased 8 years ago for $450,000 is under consideration for replacement. It has an annual operating cost of $120,000 per year and a salvage value of $40,000 whenever it is replaced. The challenger has a first cost

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When faced with different alternatives, there are many criteria that can be used to identify the best one. What is the tangible criterion that is usually used in an engineering economic analysis?

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NMTeX Oil owns several gas wells in Carlsbad, NM. Revenue from the wells has been increasing according to an arithmetic gradient for the past 5 years. The revenue in year 1 from well no. 24 was $390,000 and it increased by $15,000 each year thereafter. Determine (a) the revenue in year 3, and (b) the

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An engineer deposited her annual bonus of $10,000 into an account that pays interest at 8% per year, compounded semiannually. She withdrew $1000 in months 2, 11, and 23. Now, she wants to know the total value of the account at the end of 3 years. Solve by assuming (a) no interperiod compounding and (

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The compound interest rate per year that amounts of $1000 one year ago and $1345.60 one year hence are equivalent to is closest to: (a) 8.5% per year (b) 10.8% per year (c) 20.2% per year (d ) None of the above

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China spends an estimated $100,000 per year on cloud seeding efforts which include using antiaircraft guns and rocket launchers to fill the sky with silver iodide. In the United States, utilities that run hydroelectric dams are among the most active cloud seeders because they believe it is a cost-eff