Peters Company Produces a Product with the Following Unit Cost

question 8

Multiple Choice

Peters Company produces a product with the following unit cost.
Fixed selling costs are $600,000 per year and variable selling costs are $1.50 per unit sold.
Production capacity is 500,000 units per year. However, the company expects to produce only 300,000 units next year. The product normally sells for $15 each. A customer has offered to buy 150,000 units for $10 each. The units would be sold in an area outside the market area currently served.
-If the firm produces the special order, the effect on income would be

• A) $75,000 increase.
• B) $90,000 increase.
• C) $2,500 decrease.
• D) $12,500 decrease.

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Definitions:

Constant Marginal Cost

A situation in production where the cost to produce one additional unit of output remains the same, regardless of the volume produced.

Reaction Function

In economic models, this function represents how one player's strategy responds to the strategies of other players in a strategic game.

Demand Function

A mathematical formula expressing the amount of a product that consumers are ready and able to purchase at various prices, highlighting the price-demand relationship.

Marginal Cost

Refers to the increase or decrease in the total cost that will result from producing one more or one less unit of a product.