Quanti co., a calendar-year taxpayer, purchased small tools for $5,000 on december 21, year 1, representing the company’s only purchase of tangible personal property that took place during year 1. assume quanti co. does not want to take §179 or bonus depreciation on the tools. on its year 1 tax return, how many months of macrs depreciation may quanti co. claim on the tools?
1. one month
2. none
3. one and a half month
4. six months.

Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?