Bramble Company is considering purchasing equipment. The equipment will produce the following cash inflows: Year 1, 35,000; Year 2, 40,000; and Year 3, $50,000. Bramble requires a minimum rate of return of 10%. What is the maximum price Bramble should pay for this equipment

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

answer///supply is elastic, and demand is inelastic;