McKenzie purchased qualifying equipment for his business that cost $212,000 in 2018. The taxable income of the business for the year is $5,600 before consideration of any § 179 deduction. If an amount is zero, enter "0".

a. McKenzie's § 179 expense deduction is $ 5,600 for 2018. His § 179 carryover to 2019 is $ 206,400 .

b. How would your answer change if McKenzie decided to use additional first-year (bonus) depreciation on the equipment? Hint: See Concept Summary 8.5. McKenzie's § 179 expense deduction is ? for 2018. His § 179 carryover to 2019 is ?

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1