A company is considering two mutually exclusive methods of producing a new product. The relevant data concerning the alternatives appear below.

Alternative I Alternative II
Initial investment $64,000 $120,000
Annual receipts $50,000 $60,000
Annual disbursements $20,000 $12,000
Annual depreciation $16,000 $20,000
Expected life 4 yrs 6 yrs
Salvage value 0 0

At the end of the useful life of whatever equipment is chosen the product will be discontinued. The company's tax rate is 50 percent and the discount rate is 10 percent. Calculate the net present value of each alternative.

Suppose that the u.s. dollars-mexican pesos exchange rate is fixed by the u.s. and mexican governments. assume also that labor is mobile between the united states and mexico due to low transportation costs.which of the following situations is likely to happen as a result of a simultaneous increase in the demand for u.s. goods and decrease in the demand for mexican goods? (pick mexican unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained u.s. unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but it soon drops as unemployed mexicans move to the united states for mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but then it drops as mexican pesos depreciate against u.s. dollars.