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Engineering Economy, 5/e

Leland Blank, Texas A&M University
Anthony Tarquin, University of Texas - El Paso

Foundations of Engineering Economy

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1				Factors that cannot readily be expressed in terms of financial units are known as _________________________.


2				Interest is equal to the difference between the total amount accrued and the __________________.


3				In order to represent cash flow using the symbol A, the cash flow values must be uniform (i.e., the same amount) and occur in ____________.


4				Of the five symbols P, F, A, i and n, every engineering economy problem will involve at least ___________ of them.


5				The interest rate by corporations to evaluate the attractiveness of economic alternatives is known as the _______________.

Answer choices for questions 1 through 5

A)	Rule of 72
B)	Equal amounts
C)	Intangible factors
D)	Weighted average cost of capital
E)	Original principal
F)	Consecutive interest periods
G)	Four
H)	Non- conventional factors
I)	Minimum attractive rate of return
J)	Three

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