Hammer Company Proposes to Invest $6 Million in a New

question 43

Multiple Choice

Hammer Company proposes to invest $6 million in a new type of hammer-making equipment. The fixed costs are $0.5 million per year. The equipment is expected to last for five years. The manufacturing cost per hammer is $1and the selling price per hammer is $6. Calculate the break-even volume per year. (Ignore taxes.)

• A) 500,000 units
• B) 600,000 units
• C) 100,000 units
• D) None of the above

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Definitions:

Fixed Cost

Costs that do not vary with the level of output or sales, such as rent, salaries, and insurance.

Marginal Cost

The amount of money spent to manufacture one additional unit of a product or service.

Adam Smith

Was an 18th-century Scottish economist and philosopher, known as the "father of modern economics" for his influential work on the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.

Economies of Scale

Cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to scale of operation, with cost per unit of output decreasing with increasing scale.