Your company, csus inc., is considering a new project whose data are shown below. the required equipment has a 3-year tax life, and the accelerated rates for such property are 33%, 45%, 15%, and 7% for years 1 through 4. revenues and other operating costs are expected to be constant over the project's 10-year expected operating life. what is the project's year 4 cash flow? equipment cost (depreciable basis) $70,000sales revenues, each year $42,500operating costs (excl. depreciation) $25,000tax rate 35.0%a. $11,814b. $12,436c. $13,090d. $13,745e. $14,432

3. saving two consumers, larry and jeff, have utility functions defined over the two periods of their lives: middle age (period zero) and retirement (period 1). they have the same income in period 0 of m dollars and they will not earn income in period 1. the interest rate they face is r. larry’s and jeff’s utility functions are as follow. = 0.5 + 0.5 and = 0.5 + 0.5 for each person is between zero and one and represents each consumer’s temporal discount econ 340: intermediate microeconomics. ben van kammen: purdue university. rate. a. write the budget constraint that applies to both jeff and larry in terms of consumption in each period and ), interest rate, and m. b. what is larry’s and what is jeff’s marginal rate of intertemporal substitution? c. what is the slope of the budget constraint? d. write each consumer’s condition for lifetime utility maximization. e. re-arrange the conditions from part (d) to solve for the ratio, . f. if > which consumer will save more of his middle age income? g. if > 1 1+ , in which period will larry consume more: = 0 or = 1?