Big-Pear Corp. is considering replacing its existing equipment that is used to produce smart cell phones. This existing equipment was purchase 2 years ago at a base price of $60,000. Installation costs at the time for the machine were $6,000. The existing equipment is considered a 5-year class for MACRS. The existing equipment can be sold today for $40,000 and for $20,000 in 4 years. The new equipment has a purchase price of $110,000 and is also considered a 5-year class for MACRS. Installation costs for the new equipment are $8,000. The estimated salvage value of the new equipment in year 4 is $80,000. This new equipment is more efficient than the existing one and thus savings before taxes using the new equipment are $11,000 a year. Due to these savings, inventories will see a one time reduction of $2,000 at the time of replacement. The company's marginal tax rate is 40% and the cost of capital is 12%. For this project, what is the incremental cash flow in year 3?

Alinguist had a gross income of 53,350 last year. if 17.9% of his income got witheld for federal income tax, how much of the linguist's pay got witheld for federal income tax last year?

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3. saving two consumers, larry and jeff, have utility functions defined over the two periods of their lives: middle age (period zero) and retirement (period 1). they have the same income in period 0 of m dollars and they will not earn income in period 1. the interest rate they face is r. larry’s and jeff’s utility functions are as follow. = 0.5 + 0.5 and = 0.5 + 0.5 for each person is between zero and one and represents each consumer’s temporal discount econ 340: intermediate microeconomics. ben van kammen: purdue university. rate. a. write the budget constraint that applies to both jeff and larry in terms of consumption in each period and ), interest rate, and m. b. what is larry’s and what is jeff’s marginal rate of intertemporal substitution? c. what is the slope of the budget constraint? d. write each consumer’s condition for lifetime utility maximization. e. re-arrange the conditions from part (d) to solve for the ratio, . f. if > which consumer will save more of his middle age income? g. if > 1 1+ , in which period will larry consume more: = 0 or = 1?