Purvell corporation has just acquired a new machine with the following characteristics (ignore income taxes.): cost of the equipment $ 50,000 annual cash savings $ 15,000 life of the machine 8 years the company uses straight-line depreciation and a $5,000 salvage value. assume cash flows occur uniformly throughout a year except for the initial investment and the salvage at the end of the project. the payback period is closest to: multiple choice 3.33 years 3.0 years 8.0 years 2.9 years

Acompany manufactures x units of product a and y units of product b, on two machines, i and ii. it has been determined that the company will realize a profit of $3 on each unit of product a and $4 on each unit of product b. to manufacture a unit of product a requires 7 min on machine i and 5 min on machine ii. to manufacture a unit of product b requires 8 min on mchine i and 5 min on machine ii. there are 175 min available on machine i and 125 min available on machine ii in each work shift. how many units of a product should be produced in each shift to maximize the company's profit p?