Engineering Economy, Student Value Edition (17th Edition)
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Author: William G. Sullivan, Elin M. Wicks, C. Patrick Koelling
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Formulation of capital allocation problem as a linear integer programming model.
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Eaton Medical Services is evaluating 10 independent indivisible projects, all with positive NPV. The company's capital budgeting for the year is limited to a maximum of $5,000,000.
(A) Use solver to find the optimum combination of projects the company should accept, under the assumption that A and B are mutually exclusive and one of them has to be selected.
(B) Ignore the constraint from previous part, assume that project “I” has to be accepted. Use solver to find optimum combination of projects the company should accept now.
Please show all steps to compute in excel using solver to get to the right answers. Thank you in advance, will upvote!
Project
Cost
NPV
A
1,061,191
122,737
B
561,758
58,102
C
1,647,849
280,660
D
1,026,020
89,365
E
191,870
17,568
F
1,333,625
76,960
G
3,102,642
123,240
H
275,568
79,367
I
2,044,070
60,506
J
1,017,567
56,690
LEARNING EXERCISE 2
1. Two alternative designs are under consideration for a tapered fastening pin. The fastening pins are
sold for $0.70 each. Either design will serve equally well and will involve the same material and
manufacturing cost except for the lathe and drill operations. Design A will require 12 hours of lathe time
and 5 hours of drill time per 1,000 units. Design B will require 7 hours of lathe time and 8 hours of drill
time per 1,000 units. The variable operating cost of the lathe, including labor, is $18.60 per hour. The
variable operating cost of the drill, including labor, is $16.90 per hour. Finally, there is a sunk cost of
$5,000 for Design A and $9,000 for Design B due to obsolete tooling.
a. Which design should be adopted if 125,000 units are sold each year?2w gawen ni yilaunsm
b. What is the annual saving over the other design? dipet jeen
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Kipling Equipment Inc. must decide to produce either a face mask or a face shield to
X alleviate the spread of a quickly evolving coronavirus. The face mask is disposable and
developing it could potentially lead to a profit of $300,000 if competition is high or a
profit of $470,000 if competition is low. The face shield, on the other hand, is reusable
and has the potential of generating a fixed profit of $430,000 irrespective of high or
low competition. The probability of high competition is 52% while that of low
competition is 48%.
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Part A
Construct a decision tree or a payoff table for the decision problem and use it to
answer the following questions.
a) What is the expected monetary value of the optimal decision?
$
b) Based on expected monetary value, what should the Kipling do?
$ Produce face shield
c) What is the upper bound on the amount Kipling should pay for additional
information?
$
Part B
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