Assume you drink one coffee per day, 5 days a week. Assume coffee price is $4.00. That makes it $20 per week and $80 per month. Assume you can invest $80 per month in the stock market and assume you can earn 1 % per month on your stock investment or 12 % per year. A: At your retirement, when you are 65 years old, how much you will have in your retirement account if you switch from coffee drinking to investing in the stock market?Interest 1.00%Period 449 monthsPayment 80FV ?

You are the manager of a large crude-oil refinery. as part of the refining process, a certain heat exchanger (operated at high temperatures and with abrasive material flowing through it) must be replaced every year. the replacement and downtime cost in the first year is $165 comma 000. this cost is expected to increase due to inflation at a rate of 7% per year for six years (i.e. until the eoy 7), at which time this particular heat exchanger will no longer be needed. if the company's cost of capital is 15% per year, how much could you afford to spend for a higher quality heat exchanger so that these annual replacement and downtime costs could be eliminated?