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2.) Boston Railroad decided to use the high-low method and operating data from the past six months to estimate the fixed and variable components of transportation costs. The activity base used by Boston Railroad is a measure of railroad operating activity, termed “gross-ton miles,” which is the total number of tons multiplied by the miles moved.
Transportation Costs | Gross-Ton Miles | |||
January | $896,400 | 265,000 | ||
February | 999,400 | 296,000 | ||
March | 706,300 | 192,000 | ||
April | 958,200 | 287,000 | ||
May | 803,600 | 231,000 | ||
June | 1,030,300 | 312,000 |
Determine the variable cost per gross-ton mile and the fixed cost.
Variable cost (Round to two decimal places.) | $ per gross-ton mile |
Total fixed cost |
3.) For a recent year, Wicker Company-owned restaurants had the following sales and expenses (in millions):
Sales | $31,900 |
Food and packaging | $12,490 |
Payroll | 8,000 |
Occupancy (rent, depreciation, etc.) | 5,850 |
General, selling, and administrative expenses | 4,600 |
$30,940 | |
Income from operations | $960 |
Assume that the variable costs consist of food and packaging, payroll, and 40% of the general, selling, and administrative expenses.
a. What is Wicker Company's contribution
margin? Round to the nearest million. (Give answer in millions of
dollars.)
$ million
b. What is Wicker Company's contribution margin
ratio? Round to one decimal place.
%
c. How much would income from operations
increase if same-store sales increased by $1,900 million for the
coming year, with no change in the contribution margin ratio or
fixed costs? Round your answer to the closest million.
$ million
4.) Dragon Sports Inc. manufactures and sells two products, baseball bats and baseball gloves. The fixed costs are $369,000, and the sales mix is 30% bats and 70% gloves. The unit selling price and the unit variable cost for each product are as follows:
Products | Unit Selling Price | Unit Variable Cost | ||
Bats | $60 | $50 | ||
Gloves | 150 | 90 |
a. Compute the break-even sales (units) for
both products combined.
units
b. How many units of each product, baseball bats and baseball gloves, would be sold at break-even point?
Baseball bats | units |
Baseball gloves | units |