Question

Total and unit cost, decision making. Gayle’s Glassworks makes glass flanges for scientific use. Materials cost $1 per flange, and the glass blowers are paid a wage rate of $28 per hour. A glass blower blows 10 flanges per hour. Fixed manufacturing costs for flanges are $28,000 per period. Period (nonmanufacturing) costs associated with flanges are $10,000 per period and are fixed.
1. Graph the fixed, variable, and total manufacturing cost for flanges, using units (number of flanges) on the x-axis.2. Assume Gayle’s Glassworks manufactures and sells 5,000 flanges this period. Its competitor, Flora’s Flasks, sells flanges for $10 each. Can Gayle sell below Flora’s price and still make a profit on the flanges?3. How would your answer to requirement 2 differ if Gayle’s Glassworks made and sold 10,000 flanges this period? Why? What does this indicate about the use of unit cost in decision making?

Answer 1

Answer:

1. this is a graph. i have added it as an attachment

2. gayles glass work cannot sell below floras flask and still make profit.

3. here gayles glasswork can sell below floras flask and still make profit. unit cost helps in decision making concerning selling price and profit

Explanation:

1. please check the attachment for the graph.  we have number of flanges on the x axis of the graph and costs of manufacturing on the y axis.

2. 10 flanges at $1 + $28/hr

= $38

the variable cost for manufacturing per unit of flange =  38/10 = $3.8

$total cost per flange = (3.8 +\frac{28000}{5000} )+\frac{10000}{5000}$

= $11.40

so if Gayle's should manufacture and sell 5000 flanges, it would have total cost per flange as 11.40 dollars. while floras flask has 10 dollars per flask. Gayle's glasswork should not sell below 10 dollars as it would not be able to make profit.

3. If gayles glasswork sold and made 10000 flanges this period

$total cost per flange=[3.80+\frac{28000}{10000} ]+\frac{10000}{10000}$

= $7.60

the selling price of flora flask is = 10 dollars with Gayle's = 7.60 dollars. Gayle's can make profit by keeping selling price less than flora flask. therefore Gayle can make profit by selling below flora flask.

What does this indicate about the use of unit cost in decision making?

we saw how unit cost fell fro 11.40 dollars to 7.6 dollars as fixed and period costs remained unchanged, not withstanding the number of units that was being manufactured. this shows that unit cost plays a great role in decision making concerning selling price, profit as well as feasibility of the product.

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