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A company needs a modern material handling system for facilitating access to and from a busy warehouse. If the company’s management use a MARR (given in the below table) in their economic decisions.The company found two systems, the first system is a second-hand and the second system is a new system. The economic consequences of both systems are given in the below table for each group. PART1: For the second-hand system alternative:
a).Calculate the simple and discounted payback periods.
b).What are the annual savings required for the system to breakeven?
investment cost :192,500$
annual expenses: 51,800$
annual savings: 104,500$
useful life: 8 years
salvage value: 68,000$
MARR: 21.6% per year