You are considering purchasing a new production tool that will cost $50,000 to purchase today. Once in use, the tool is anticipated to provide $1850 in positive benefit each year for the next ten years from reduced product defects and material scrap. The tool has a useful life of 10 years and at the end of this time has a salvage value that is 12% of the initial investment. If the MARR for this scenario is 10%, should you invest in the tool? Include in your answer the IRR for this project.

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The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

Use the following account numbers and corresponding account titles to answer the following question. account no. account title (1) cash (2) merchandise inventory (3) cost of goods sold (4) transportation-out (5) dividends (6) common stock (7) selling expense (8) loss on the sale of land (9) sales which accounts would appear on the income statement?