Consider the following two projects: Project Year 0 C/F Year 1 C/F Year 2 C/F Year 3 C/F Year 4 C/F Year 5 C/F Year 6 C/F Year 7 C/F Discount Rate Alpha -79 20 25 30 35 40 N/A N/A 15% Beta -80 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 16% Assume that projects Alpha and Beta are mutually exclusive. The correct investment decision and the best rational for that decision is to:

An outside supplier has offered to sell talbot similar wheels for $1.25 per wheel. if the wheels are purchased from the outside supplier, $15,000 of annual fixed overhead could be avoided and the facilities now being used could be rented to another company for $45,000 per year. direct labor is a variable cost. if talbot chooses to buy the wheel from the outside supplier, then annual net operating income would: