Your Company Plans to Produce a New Product, a Wireless

question 29

Multiple Choice

Your company plans to produce a new product, a wireless computer mouse. Two machines can be used to make the mouse, Machines A and B. The price per mouse will be $25.00 regardless of which machine is used. The fixed and variable costs associated with the two machines are shown below. At the expected sales level of 75,000 units, how much higher or lower will the firm's expected EBIT be if it uses high fixed cost Machine B rather than low fixed cost Machine A, i.e., what is EBITB - EBITA?

• A) $123,019
• B) $136,688
• C) $151,875
• D) $168,750
• E) $185,625

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or to a system.

Interval Estimation

A range of values used to estimate a population parameter, typically expressed as a confidence interval.

Margin of Error

The range within which the true population parameter is expected to lie, with a certain level of confidence.

Confidence

In statistics, it often pertains to the degree of certainty or probability that a parameter falls within a specified range.