The Great Foods Company Processes Milk into Skim Milk and Butter

question 3

Multiple Choice

The Great Foods Company processes milk into skim milk and butter. This year 70,000 litres of milk will be processed, costing $40,000. If processed to the split-off point, this will yield 40,000 litres of skim milk and 10,000 kilograms of butter. Skim milk is sold to distributors for $1 per litre and butter is sold for $0.75 per kilogram. Great Foods has the option of processing the two products further. Skim milk can be processed into canned, sweetened and condensed skim milk and sold for $0.80 per can. One litre of skim milk makes 2 cans of condensed milk. To process 40,000 litres of skim milk it will cost $18,000. Butter can be processed into cake frosting and sold in containers for $2 each. One kilogram of butter goes into each container of frosting. The cost of processing 10,000 kilograms of butter into frosting costs $15,000.
What is the per-unit joint cost allocated to skim milk and butter if the sales value at split-off method is used?

• A) $0.8421 per litre and $0.6316 per kilogram
• B) $1 per litre and $0.75 per kilogram
• C) $0.381 per litre and $0.9524 per kilogram
• D) $0.7619 per litre and $0.9524 per kilogram

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