Which of the following demonstrates real value?

my new skis cost about as much as it did for all of us going to that concert on saturday night.
in-state college tuition costs me $23,000 for the first year
when all of us pool our money, we can buy a computer for my mom.
my dad needs to work all month to be able to pay for the huge dent in the side of the car.
when we sell the house, we will have enough to pay for four years of college.

Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?