Required information Lego Group in Bellund, Denmark, manufactures Lego toy construction blocks. The company is considering two methods for producing special-purpose Lego parts. Method 1 will have an initial cost of $380,000, an annual operating cost of $120,000, and a life of 3 years. Method 2 will have an initial cost of $580,000, an operating cost of $90,000 per year, and a 6-year life. Assume 15% salvage values for both methods. Lego uses an MARR of 9% per year. If the evaluation is incorrectly performed using the respective life estimates of 3 and 6 years, will Lego make a correct or incorrect economic decision? Explain your answer. The present worth of method 1 is $ Method (Click to select) is selected. and that of method 2 is $
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To do this, we need to discount the future cash flows to their present value. Method 1 has an initial cost of $120,000, which occurs at time 0. Since there are no future cash flows for method 1, we don't need to discount anything. Show more…
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