The local ice hockey club would like to retrofit all the Zamboni machines with digital displays that fans can Tweet and text messages to in support of various popularity polls. It will take about $\$ 68,000$ to get the LED displays custom built and mounted with all the wireless support, but marketing is confident they can net $\$ 24,000$ in sponsorship revenue the first year (12 games at $\$ 2,000$ per major sponsor), and they think they could build revenue $9 \%$ year over year. A problem, though, is that due to cold temperatures, a wet environment, and a generally harsh environment, student intern announcers have guestimated the probability the Zamboni displays will last as follows:

Does this project have any hope of being economically acceptable? Assume that MARR $=12 \%$.

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Useful Life Probability (Seasons) 1 0.05 23 0.05 0.10 45 4 0.25 0.50