Major Foods, Inc

question 96

Multiple Choice

Major Foods, Inc. produces a cereal from oat grain. The company buys unprocessed oats for $400 per ton. It costs $60 per ton to send the oats through a processor, which produces 1,900 kilograms of pure oats and 100 kilograms of oat shells. The oat shells are ground and packaged at a cost of $100 per hundred kilograms. They are sold to a poultry feed company for $3 per kilogram. The pure oats are cooked and packaged into 4-kilogram containers at a cost of $350. The packaged oats are sold for $2 per 4-kilogram container.
If Major uses the net realizable value method, the gross profit from the oat shells is:

• A) $185
• B) $200
• C) $85
• D) $215

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Definitions:

Private Goods Consumption

The act of consuming goods that are excludable and rivalrous in nature, meaning they can only be owned or consumed by one party and consumption by one person prevents consumption by another.

Pareto Optimal

A state of allocation of resources from which it is impossible to make any one individual better off without making at least one individual worse off.

Public Goods

Goods that are non-excludable and non-rivalrous, meaning they are available to all members of a society, such as public parks and national defense.

Private Consumption

The total amount of goods and services consumed by individuals in a household.