Alfred Home Construction is considering the purchase of five dumpsters and the transport truck to store and transfer construction debrts from building sites. The entire ng is estimated to have an initial cost of $145,000, a life of 8 years, a $13500 salvage value, an operating cost of $40 per day, and an annual maintenance cost of $11000. Alternatively, Alfred can obtain the same services from the ity as needed at each construction site for an initial delivery cost of $125 per dumpster per site and a daily charge of $26 per day per dumpster. An estimated 26 construction sites will need debris storage throughout the average year. If the minimum attractive rate of eturn is 10% per year, how many days per year must the equipment be required to justify its purchase? The number of days per year the equipment must be required is determined to be
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- Alfred Home Construction is considering the purchase of five dumpsters and the transport truck to store and transfer construction debris from building sites. The entire rig is estimated to have an initial cost of $125,000, a life of 8 years, a $5000 salvage value, an operating cost of $40 per day, and an annual maintenance cost of $2000. Alternatively, Alfred can obtain the same services from the city as needed at each construction site for an initial delivery cost of $125 per dumpster per site and a daily charge of $20 per day per dumpster. An estimated 45 construction sites will need debris storage throughout the average year. If the minimum attractive rate of return is 12% per year, how many days per year must the equipment be required to justify its purchase?Alfred Home Construction is considering the purchase of five dumpsters and the transport truck to store and transfer construction debris from building sites. The entire rig is estimated to have an initial cost of $145,000, a life of 8 years, a $13500 salvage value, an operating cost of $40 per day, and an annual maintenance cost of $11000. Alternatively, Alfred can obtain the same services from the city as needed at each construction site for an initial delivery cost of $125 per dumpster per site and a daily charge of $26 per day per dumpster. An estimated 26 construction sites will need debris storage throughout the average year. If the minimum attractive fate of return is 10% per year, how many days per year must the equipment be required to justify its purchase? The number of days per year the equipment must be required is determined to be [Alfred Home Construction is considering the purchase of five dumpsters and the transport truck to store and transfer construction debris from building sites. The entire rig is estimated to have an initial cost of $142,500, a life of 8 years, a $8500 salvage value, an operating cost of $40 per day, and an annual maintenance cost of $8000. Alternatively, Alfred can obtain the same services from the city as needed at each construction site for an initial delivery cost of $125 per dumpster per site and a daily charge of $34 per day per dumpster. An estimated 19 construction sites will need debris storage throughout the average year. If the minimum attractive rate of return is 11% per year, how many days per year must the equipment be required to justify its purchase? The number of days per year the equipment must be required is determined to be
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- Metal Recycling and Salvage receives the opportunity to salvage scrap metal and other materials from an old industrial site. The current owners of the site will sign over the site to Enviro at no cost. Enviro intends to extract scrap metal at the site for 24 months and then will clean up the site, return the land to useable condition, and sell it to a developer. Projected costs associated with the project follow: Read the requirements2. Requirement 1. Assuming that Enviro expects to salvage 70,000tons of metal from the site, what is the total project life cycle cost? Total Life-Cycle Costs Variable costs: Metal extraction and processing Fixed costs: Metal extraction and processing Rent on temporary buildings Administration Clean-up Land restoration Selling land Total life-cycle cost Requirement 2. Suppose Enviro can sell the metal for $110 per ton and wants to earn a…Peachtree Construction Company, a highway contractor, is considering the purchase of a new trench excavator that costs $300,000 and can dig a 3-foot-wide trench at the rate of 16 feet per hour. The contractor gets paid according to the usage of the equipment. $100 per hour. The expected average annual usage is 500 hours, and maintenance and operating costs will be $10 per hour. The contractor will depreciate the equipment by using a five-year MACRS, units-of-production method. At the end of five years, the excavator will be sold for $100,000.(a) Assuming that the contractor's marginal tax rate is 35% per year, determine the annual after-tax cash flow.(b) Is this a good investment if the contractor requires 15% return on investment?ABC company is evaluating two alternatives: the purchase of an automatic feed machine and a manual feed machine for a finishing process. The auto-feed machine has an initial cost of Php23,000, an estimated salvage value of Php4,000, and a predicted life of 10 years. One person will operate the machine at a rate of Php24 per hour. The expected output is 8 tons per hour. Annual maintenance and operating cost is expected to be Php3,500. The alternative manual feed machine has a first cost of Php8,000, no expected salvage value, a 5-year life, and an output of 6 tons per hour. However, three workers will be required at Php12 per hour each. The machine will have an annual maintenance and operation cost of Php1,500. All projects are expected to generate a return of 10% per year. How many tons per year must be finished in order to justify the higher purchase cost of the auto-feed machine?Please write legibly with complete & detailed solution