Required information problem 10-6a disposal of plant assets lo c1, p1, p2 [the following information applies to the questions displayed below.] onslow co. purchased a used machine for $178,000 cash on january 2. on january 3, onslow paid $2,840 to wire electricity to the machine and an additional $1,160 to secure it in place. the machine will be used for six years and have a $14,000 salvage value. straight-line depreciation is used. on december 31, at the end of its fifth year in operations, it is disposed of. prepare journal entries to record the machine's purchase and the costs to ready and install it.

Suppose that two firms produce differentiated products and compete in prices. as in class, the two firms are located at two ends of a line one mile apart. consumers are evenly distributed along the line. the firms have identical marginal cost, $60. firm b produces a product with value $110 to consumers.firm a (located at 0 on the unit line) produces a higher quality product with value $120 to consumers. the cost of travel are directly related to the distance a consumer travels to purchase a good. if a consumerhas to travel a mile to purchase a good, the incur a cost of $20. if they have to travel x fraction of a mile, they incur a cost of $20x. (a) write down the expressions for how much a consumer at location d would value the products sold by firms a and b, if they set prices p_{a} and p_{b} ? (b) based on your expressions in (a), how much will be demanded from each firm if prices p_{a} and p_{b} are set? (c) what are the nash equilibrium prices?