Two years ago, the Emery Company purchased a motor vehicle with a 3-year recovery period. The depreciation charge by the MACRS method for year 2 is $66,675. What was the first cost of the vehicle? [fc] What was the depreciation charge for year 1? [d1] What is the book value of the vehicle at the end of year 2? [bv2]

Philosophers such as Descartes regard the [BLANK-1] to be the thing that thinks, perceives, feels, imagines, remembers, believes, dreams, and so on.

One rate of return for the following cash flow series is 30% per year. Year Net Cash Flow, $ 0 −1,000 1 3,900 2 −5,030 3 2,145 4 0

Functionalism is a type of [BLANK-1] about the mind, because while it identifies types of mental states with types of functions, it identifies token mental states with token states of the brain (at least, in humans).

QID [q]. Recently, Arizona State University’s Polytechnic campus placed third in the 22nd RoboSub competition. Fifty-four teams representing Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, India, Japan, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey and the United States of America and territories participated in the competition, which was held in San Diego, California. The prize for third place was $[z]. If the team spent $[p] for parts (at time 0) and the project took [y] years, what annual rate of return did the team make? (Answer as a percentage, round to one decimal place.)

A local company purchased new manufacturing equipment for $800,000.  The equipment has an anticipated life of 10 years and a salvage value of $10,000. Using straight-line (SL) depreciation, what is the depreciation rate for year 5? [sr5] (two decimals) Using straight-line (SL) depreciation, what is the deprecation charge for year 5? $[sd5] (nearest dollar) Using straight-line (SL) depreciation, what is the book value at the end of year 5? $[sb5] (nearest dollar)

Pure Wafer, Inc., provides silicon wafer reclaim services to semiconductor manufacturers.  The company spent $51,000 on a production control system that will increase profits by $21,000 per year for the next 5 years. The annual rate of return on this investment is closest to [ror]  

An asset that is book depreciated over a 5-year period by the straight‑line method has BV2 = $88,000 with a depreciation charge of $26,000 per year. (Round answers to nearest dollar.) What is the first cost of the asset? $[i] What is the assumed salvage value? $[s]

Pure Wafer, Inc., provides silicon wafer reclaim services to semiconductor manufacturers.  The company spent $51,000 on a production control system that will increase profits by $31,000 per year for the next 4 years. The annual rate of return on this investment is closest to [ror]  

Consider the net cash flows for the two mutually-exclusive investment projects:    n     Project A   Project B  0 −$12,500 −$20,500 1 $6,400 −$3,000 2 $4,400 $18,000 3 $7,000 $13,000 IRR 20% 13% At an MARR of 6%, which project should be selected on the basis of the IRR criterion? [which]