A company purchases an industrial laser for $150,000. The device has a useful life of ten years and a salvage value (market value) at the end of those ten years of $20,000. The before-tax cash flow is estimated to be $80,000 per year. You, of course, suggested applying the Seven-year MACRS (GDS) method instead of the straight-line method. Based on the MACRS depreciation schedule for this asset, if the industrial laser was sold for $60,000 in year four what will be the amount of gain (depreciation recapture) or loss on the disposal of the asset at the end of this year

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1