A dam is being built that will cost $500,000. The dam will cost $20,000 per year to operate and will require a maintenance expense of $30,000 every other year beginning two years from now. The dam is expected to last 30 years. If interest is 12%, calculate the capitalized cost.

The capitalized cost will be "784,592".

Explanation:

The given values are:

Initial cost = $500,000

Annual operating cost = $20,000

Interest, i = 12% i.e., 0.12

Effective Two year interest rate, i₂ =

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As we know,

Now on putting the estimated values in the above expression, we get

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So that the above is the right answer.

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two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.