Sooky has a spotter truck with a book value of $43,000 and a remaining useful life of five years. At the end of the five years the spotter truck will have a zero-salvage value. Sooky can purchase a new spotter truck for $123,000 and receive $31,300 in return for trading in its old spotter truck. The old spotter truck has variable manufacturing costs of $78.000 per year. The new spotter truck will reduce variable manufacturing costs by $25,300 per year over the five-year life of the new spotter truck. The total increase or decrease in income by replacing the current spotter truck with the new truck is Mutiple Choice $31.300 decrease $34,800 increase $123.000 decrease
Sooky has a spotter truck with a book value of $43,000 and a remaining useful life of five years. At the end of the five years the spotter truck will have a zero-salvage value. Sooky can purchase a new spotter truck for $123,000 and receive $31,300 in return for trading in its old spotter truck. The old spotter truck has variable manufacturing costs of $78.000 per year. The new spotter truck will reduce variable manufacturing costs by $25,300 per year over the five-year life of the new spotter truck. The total increase or decrease in income by replacing the current spotter truck with the new truck is Mutiple Choice $31.300 decrease $34,800 increase $123.000 decrease
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Transcribed Image Text:Sooky has a spotter truck with a book value of $43,000 and a remaining useful life of five years. At the end of the five years the spotter truck will have a zero-salvage value. (Sooky can
purchase a new spotter truck for $123,000 and receive $31,300 in return for trading in its old spotter truck. The old spotter truck has variable manufacturing costs of $78.000 per year. The
new spotter truck will reduce variable manufacturing costs by $25,300 per year over the five-year life of the new spotter truck The total increase or decrease in income by replacing the
current spotter truck with the new truck is
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$31.300 decrease
O $34,800 increase
$123.000 decrease
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