Use the Following Information for the Next 5 Questions

question 64

Multiple Choice

Use the following information for the next 5 questions.
The Great Foods Company processes milk into skim milk and butter. This year 70,000 gallons of will be processed, costing $40,000. If processed to the split-off point, this will yield 40,000 gallons of skim milk and 10,000 pounds of butter. Skim milk is sold to distributors for $1 per gallon and butter is sold for $0.75 per pound. Great Foods has the option of processing the two products further. Skim milk can be processed into canned, sweetened, condensed skim milk and sold for $0.80 per can. One gallon of skim milk makes 2 cans of condensed milk. To process 40,000 gallons of skim milk will cost $18,000. Butter can be processed into cake frosting, sold in containers for $2 each. One pound of butter goes into each container of frosting. The cost of processing 10,000 pounds 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 gallon and $0.6316 per pound
• B) $1 per gallon and $0.75 per pound
• C) $0.381 per gallon and $0.9524 per pound
• D) $0.7619 per gallon and $0.9524 per pound

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