A Lean Six Sigma project team is considering solutions to a problem. They have developed many ideas regarding how to improve their process. Now, they plan to try to narrow down this list of possible project ideas to select the one they will implement now. The process of rank ordering a list of ideas is best facilitated by which quality improvement tool? a) Affinity diagram
b) Brainstorming
c) Multi-voting
d) Nominal group technique

Russell's is considering purchasing $697,400 of equipment for a four-year project. the equipment falls in the five-year macrs class with annual percentages of .2, .32, .192, .1152, .1152, and .0576 for years 1 to 6, respectively. at the end of the project the equipment can be sold for an estimated $135,000. the required return is 13.2 percent and the tax rate is 23 percent. what is the amount of the aftertax salvage value of the equipment assuming no bonus depreciation is taken