You are evaluating two different silicon wafer milling machines. The Techron I costs $245,000, has a three year life, and has pretax operating costs of $63,000 per year. The Techron II costs $420,000, has a five year life, and has pretax operating costs of $35,000 per year. For both milling machines, use straight-line depreciation to zero over the project’s life and assume a salvage value of $40,000. If your tax rate is 22% and your discount rate is 10%, compute the EAC for both machines. Which do you prefer?

Arguments made against free trade include all of the following exceptdumping is an unfair trade practice that puts domestic producers of substitute goods at a disadvantage that they should be protected against.national defense considerations justify producing certain goods domestically whether the country has a comparative advantage in their production or not.free trade is inflationary and should be restricted in the domestic interest. if foreign governments subsidize their exports, foreign firms that export are given an unfair advantage that domestic producers should be protected against.infant industries should be protected from free trade so that they may have time to develop and compete on an even basis with older, more established foreign industries.