Select the best alternative below using Present Worth analysis. (Use Excel)
Analysis of cost for various pipe sizes is as follows: Select the best alternative below...
engineering economics
A contractor has been awarded the contract to construct a 6-mile-long tunnel in the mountains. During the 5-year construction period, the contractor will need water from nearby stream. She will construct a pipeline to carry the water to the main construction yard, an analysis of costs for various pipe sizes is as follows 3. Pipe Sizes (in) 24,000 28,000 30,000 Installed cost of pipeline and pump 20,000 Cost per hour for 1.5 0.75 0.55 0.35 Salvage value of...
Question 1 A. Using Ms Excel, find out which alternative should be selected on the basis of the Present Worth method, if the rate of interest is 8% per year. • Alternative 1: Initial purchase price = $2500000, Annual operating cost $45000 at the end of 1st year and increasing by $3000 in the subsequent years till the end of useful life, Annual income = $120000, Salvage value = $550000, Useful life = 3 years. Alternative 2: Initial purchase price...
Please help with graph, thank you! This is a small business started by Alex Lopez in 1980. He was 22 years old, and had just graduated from UTSA with a degree in Business. As a young entrepreneur, he bought a greenhouse, and started a hydroponic farm growing tomatoes. Growing various vegetables in water was a new industry at that time. Alex’s business is operating in a perfectly competitive industry, competing with other greenhouse and field producers in the U.S. and...
A small coastal town in Queensland is subject to an increasing permanent population and also a transient influx of tourists during the summer period. Council already receives frequent complaints of restricted water supply. The water supply system comprises a rising trunk main from the treatment plant A to the service reservoir B, the service reservoir, and service mains to the consumption areas. Two consumption areas C and D at different elevations are gravity supplied from the service reservoir. The service...