Sally's Sod Inc. provides lawn maintenance and has two different packages: Standard and Deluxe. Selected data related to each package is as follows: Standard Deluxe
Contribution margin per package $40 $120
Direct labor hours per package 2 3

For the upcoming year, the company has a maximum of 3,600 direct labor hours available. Sally's management believes that there will be demand for both the standard and deluxe lawn maintenance packages and that each type of package is limited to 800 lawn services per year. If the company's goal is to maximize profits, what is the contribution margin the company could have in the upcoming year?

a. $128,000
b. $120,000
c. $ 96,000
d. $ 72,000
e. $144,000

conquest, inc. produces a special kind of light-weight, recreational vehicle that has a unique design. it allows the company to follow a cost-plus pricing strategy. it has $9,000,000 of average assets, and the desired profit is a 10% return on assets. assume all products produced are sold. additional data are as follows: sales volume 1000 units per year; variable costs $1000 per unit; fixed costs $4,000,000 per year; using the cost-plus pricing approach, what should be the sales price per unit?

Mauro products distributes a single product, a woven basket whose selling price is $15 and whose variable expense is $12 per unit. the company’s monthly fixed expense is $4,200. required: 1. solve for the company’s break-even point in unit sales using the equation method. 2. solve for the company’s break-even point in dollar sales using the equation method and the cm ratio. (do not round intermediate calculations. round "cm ratio percent" to nearest whole percent.) 3. solve for the company’s break-even point in unit sales using the formula method. 4. solve for the company’s break-even point in dollar sales using the formula method and the cm ratio. (do not round intermediate calculations. round "cm ratio percent" to nearest whole percent.)

You are looking at a one-year loan of $16,500. the interest rate is quoted as 8.7 percent plus two points. a point on a loan is 1 percent (one percentage point) of the loan amount. quotes similar to this one are common with home mortgages. the interest rate quotation in this example requires the borrower to pay two points to the lender up front and repay the loan later with 8.7 percent interest. what rate would you actually be paying here?