Kingbird Inc. wishes to lease machinery to Thiensville Company. Thiensville wants the machinery for 4 years, although it has a useful life of 10 years. The machinery has a fair value at the commencement of the lease of $45,000, and Kingbird expects the machinery to have a residual value at the end of the lease term of $28,000. However, Thiensville does not guarantee any part of the residual value. Thiensville does expect that the residual value will be $43,000 instead of $28,000. What would be the amount of the annual rental payments Kingbird demands of Thiensville, assuming each payment will be made at the end of each year and Kingbird wishes to earn a rate of return on the lease of 6%? (For calculation purposes, use 5 decimal places as displayed in the factor table provided and round final answer to 0 decimal places, e. g. 5,275.)
Amount of equal annual lease payments?? $

Wo firms, a and b, each currently dump 50 tons of chemicals into the local river. the government has decided to reduce the pollution and from now on will require a pollution permit for each ton of pollution dumped into the river. it costs firm a $100 for each ton of pollution that it eliminates before it reaches the river, and it costs firm b $50 for each ton of pollution that it eliminates before it reaches the river. the government gives each firm 20 pollution permits. government officials are not sure whether to allow the firms to buy or sell the pollution permits to each other. what is the total cost of reducing pollution if firms are not allowed to buy and sell pollution permits from each other? what is the total cost of reducing pollution if the firms are allowed to buy and sell permits from each other? a. $3,000; $1,500 b. $4,500; $3,500 c. $4,500; $4,000 d. $4,500; $2,500