Academic Integrity: tutoring, explanations, and feedback — we don’t complete graded work or submit on a student’s behalf.

Michael Vick has written a self improvement book that has the following cost cha

ID: 2375594 • Letter: M

Question

Michael Vick has written a self improvement book that has the following cost characteristics:

Selling Price $16.00 per book

Variable cost per unit:

Production $4.00

Selling & administrative 2.00

Fixed costs:

Production $88,000 per year

Selling & administrative 18,000 per year


Assume the variable production cost and the price were both cut by $2.00 per unit. Which of the following would change?




Breakeven point in units




Contribution margin ratio




Total fixed costs




Contribution margin per unit

Explanation / Answer

b) Contribution margin