Use the Following Information for Questions 100 and 101

question 54

Multiple Choice

Use the following information for questions 100 and 101.
Posner Co. is a retail store operating in a state with a 7% retail sales tax. The retailer may keep 2% of the sales tax collected. Posner Co. records the sales tax in the Sales Revenue account. The amount recorded in the Sales Revenue account during May was $251,450.
-The amount of sales taxes (to the nearest dollar) for May is

• A) $20,762.
• B) $16,450.
• C) $22,631.
• D) $17,602.

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Definitions:

Marginal Cost

The escalation in total financial outlay due to the creation of one more unit of a product or service.

Average Total Cost

Calculated by dividing the total cost to produce a product by the quantity of the product produced, it represents the per-unit cost of production.

Bygones

In economics, the principle of "letting bygones be bygones" implies that past costs, which cannot be recovered, should not factor into future economic decisions.

Total Revenue

The complete total of earnings a firm gains through product sales or service charges over a set period.