Dwight Donovan, the president of Thornton Enterprises, is considering two investment opportunities. Because of limited resources, he will be able to invest in only one of them. Project A is to purchase a machine that will enable factory automation; the machine is expected to have a useful life of three years and no salvage value. Project B supports a training program that will improve the skills of employees operating the current equipment. Initial cash expenditures for Project A are $111,000 and for Project B are $49,000. The annual expected cash inflows are $52,695 for Project A and $19,704 for Project B. Both investments are expected to provide cash flow benefits for the next three years. Thornton Enterprises’ desired rate of return is 6 percent. Compute the net present value of each project. Which project should be adopted based on the net present value approach?

Compute the approximate internal rate of return of each project. Which one should be adopted based on the internal rate of return approach?

Adecibel is a logarithmic unit that can be used to measure the intensity of a sound. the function y = 10logx gives the intensity of a sound in decibels, where x is the ratio of the intensity of the sound to a reference intensity. the reference intensity is generally set at the threshold of hearing. use the graphing utility to graph the decibel function.a whisper has a sound intensity of 30 decibels. use your graph to you complete the following statement. the sound intensity of a whisper is times the reference intensity.

The volume of the sun is approximately 1 × 10^18 cu km, while the volume of jupiter is approximately 1 × 10^15 cu km. which of the following is true? a. the volume of jupiter is approximately one thousand times the volume of the sun. b. the volume of jupiter is approximately one hundred times the volume of the sun. c. the volume of the sun is approximately one thousand times the volume of jupiter. d. the volume of the sun is approximately one hundred times the volume of jupiter.

At river bank, checking account customers earn 0.75% interest a month on their account balances, pay no service fees for writing checks, and pay a monthly $2.00 financial charge. calculate the income earned in one month on the checking account for a customer with an account balance of $1,000. a. $4.25 b. $5.50 c. $6.75 d. $7.25 checking account earnings at baker’s bank are expressed by the equation: i = -0.09x + 10.2. while the earnings at elite bank are modeled by: i = -0.02x + 7.5. in both cases, x is the number of checks written. at what number of checks will elite bank start generating more checking account income than baker's bank? a. 12 b. 25 c. 39 d. 42 emilio’s checking account had a balance of 728.32 at the beginning of the week. he wrote checks for the following amounts throughout the week: $99.48, $33.50, $18.23, and $72.05. he also deposited his paycheck in the amount of $1,109.90. what is his account balance at the end of the week? a. $1,192.35 b. $1,222.86 c. $1,540.52 d. $1,614.96