NPV of a project) Management at the Physicians' Bone and Joint (PB&J) Clinic is considering whether to purchase a newly developed MRI machine that the manufacturer tells them will provide roblems. The new machine is quite expensive but should last for a number of years. The clinic's CFO asked an analyst to work up estimates of the NPV of the investment under three different a igh, medium, and low). To carry out the analysis, the CFO assigned a 50 percent probability to the medium-demand state, a 33 percent probability to the high-demand state, and the remaining 1 casting the demand for the machine based on the CFO's judgment and past utilization rates for MRI scans, the analyst made the following NPV estimates: E for the MRI machine based on the above estimates? How would you interpret the meaning of the expected NPV? Does this look like a good investment to you? lity of the medium-demand state remains 50 percent, calculate the maximum probability you can assign to the low-demand state and stil have an expected NPV of 0 or higher. (Hint. The sum of nust be 100 percent.) MRI machine is $. (Round to the nearest dollar.)

NPV of a project) Management at the Physicians' Bone and Joint (PB&J) Clinic is considering whether to purchase a newly developed MRI machine that the manufacturer tells them will provide roblems. The new machine is quite expensive but should last for a number of years. The clinic's CFO asked an analyst to work up estimates of the NPV of the investment under three different a igh, medium, and low). To carry out the analysis, the CFO assigned a 50 percent probability to the medium-demand state, a 33 percent probability to the high-demand state, and the remaining 1 casting the demand for the machine based on the CFO's judgment and past utilization rates for MRI scans, the analyst made the following NPV estimates: E for the MRI machine based on the above estimates? How would you interpret the meaning of the expected NPV? Does this look like a good investment to you? lity of the medium-demand state remains 50 percent, calculate the maximum probability you can assign to the low-demand state and stil have an expected NPV of 0 or higher. (Hint. The sum of nust be 100 percent.) MRI machine is $. (Round to the nearest dollar.)

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