Lego Group in Bellund, Denmark, manufactures Lego toy construction blocks. The company is considering two methods for producing special-purpose Lego parts. Method 1 will have an initial cost of $500,000, an annual operating cost of $100,000, and a life of 3 years. Method 2 will have an initial cost of $700,000, an operating cost of $140,000 per year, and a 6-year life. Assume 11% salvage values for both methods. Lego uses an MARR of 14% per year. Required:
a. Which method should it select on the basis of a present worth analysis?
b. If the evaluation is incorrectly performed using the respective life estimates of 3 and 6 years, will Lego make a correct or incorrect economic decision? Explain your answer.

Sales at a fast-food restaurant average $6,000 per day. the restaurant decided to introduce an advertising campaign to increase daily sales. to determine the effectiveness of the advertising campaign, a sample of 49 days of sales were taken. they found that the average daily sales were $6,300 per day. from past history, the restaurant knew that its population standard deviation is about $1,000. if the level of significance is 0.01, have sales increased as a result of the advertising campaign? multiple choicea)fail to reject the null hypothesis.b)reject the null hypothesis and conclude the mean is higher than $6,000 per day.c)reject the null hypothesis and conclude the mean is lower than $6,000 per day.d)reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the mean is equal to $6,000 per day.expert answer

Jacob is a member of wcc (an llc taxed as a partnership). jacob was allocated $155,000 of business income from wcc for the year. jacob’s marginal income tax rate is 37 percent. the business allocation is subject to 2.9 percent of self-employment tax and 0.9 percent additional medicare tax. (round your intermediate calculations to the nearest whole dollar a) what is the amount of tax jacob will owe on the income allocation if the income is not qualified business income? b) what is the amount of tax jacob will owe on the income allocation if the income is qualified business income (qbi) and jacob qualifies for the full qbi duduction?

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