Your company consists of two different projects. You expect things to be either good next year with probability 1 2 or bad with the same probability 1 2 . If things will be good, the first project will pay $5M and the second project will pay $20M one year from now. If things will be bad, the first project will pay $15M and the second project will pay $10M one year from now. (a) Which project is riskier?(b) What is the total risk of your company?

You are evaluating two different silicon wafer milling machines. the techron i costs $285,000, has a three-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $78,000 per year. the techron ii costs $495,000, has a five-year life, and has pretax operating costs of $45,000 per year. for both milling machines, use straight-line depreciation to zero over the project’s life and assume a salvage value of $55,000. if your tax rate is 24 percent and your discount rate is 11 percent, compute the eac for both machines.

Win goods inc. is a large multinational conglomerate. as a single business unit, the company's stock price is estimated to be $200. however, by adding the actual market stock prices of each of its individual business units, the stock price of the company as one unit would be $300. what is win goods experiencing in this scenario? a. diversification discount b. learning-curveeffects c. experience-curveeffects d. economies of scale

To travelers know what to expect researchers collect the prices of commodities