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Clemente Inc An Outside Supplier Has Offered to Sell Clemente the Subcomponent

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Clemente Inc. incurs the following costs to produce 10,000 units of a subcomponent: $$\begin{array} { l l } \text { Direct materials } & \$ 8,400 \\\text { Direct labor } & 11,250 \\\text { Variable overhead } & 12,600 \\\text { Fixed overhead } & 16,200\end{array}$$ An outside supplier has offered to sell Clemente the subcomponent for $2.85 a unit.
-If Clemente accepts the offer, it could use the production capacity to produce another product that would generate additional income of $3,600. The increase (decrease) in net income from accepting the offer would be

• A) $150.
• B) $7,350.
• C) $(150).
• D) $(3,600).

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Demand Curve

A graphical representation showing the relationship between the price of a good or service and the quantity demanded by consumers.

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The surplus remaining after deducting both the explicit and implicit costs from a firm's total revenues.

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