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Product A sells for $24.00 per unit and its variable cost is $20.00 per unit. Product B sells for $30.00 per unit and its variable cost is $22.80 per unit. Both products use the same machines. A total of 204,000 machine hours are available each year. Product A requires 1.0 machine hour (MH) while Product B requires 1.5 MHs. The market demand for Product A is 100,000 units and the market demand for Product B is 70,000 units. The company should manufacture:
a.99,000 units of Product A and 70,000 units of Product B.
b.204,000 units of Product A and 0 units of Product B.
c.100,000 units of Product A and 69,333 units of Product B.
d.39,000 units of Product A and 110,000 units of Product B.
Contribution margin per unit of Product A = Sales price - Variable cost
= $24.00 - $20.00
= $4.00
Contribution margin per unit of Product B = Sales price - Variable cost
= $30.00 - $22.80
= $7.20
Contribution margin per Machine hour of product A = Contribution margin per unit / Machine hours per unit
= $4.00 / 1.0
= $4.00
Contribution margin per machine hour of Product B = $7.20 / 1.5
= $4.80
Since the contribution margin per machine hour of Product B is more than the contribution margin per machine hour of Product A.
Therefore company should manufacture all units of Product B and remaining units of Product A.
Product B units = 70,000 units
Machine hours required for Product B = 70,000 * 1.50 hours
= 105,000 hours
Remaining machine hours = 204,000 - 105,000
= 99,000 hours
Product A units = 99,000 hours / 1.0 hours
= 99,000 units
99,000 units of Product A and 70,000 units of Product B, company should manufacture.