Engineering Economy 7th Edition by Leland Blank ,Anthony Tarquin

Exercise 43

Irvin Aerospace of Santa Ana, California, was awarded a 5-year contract to develop an advanced space capsule airbag landing attenuation system for NASA's Langley Research Center. The company's computer system uses fluid structure interaction modeling to test and analyze each airbag design concept. What is the present worth of the contract at 16% per year, compounded quarterly, if the quarterly cost in years 1 through 5 is $2 million per quarter