1. Your company currently owns a machine that is costing you $60.000 per year. You areconsidering replacing it with a new machine that would have a first cost of $60.000, andannual operating costs of $30,000 per year for three years. You have received three differentestimates of the eventual salvage value of the new machine: $10,000: $15,000; and$20,000. If your company's minimum acceptable rate of return is 12% per year, is thedecision of whether to replace the machine sensitive to the estimated salvage value?Solution: No

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