Answer the Following Questions Using the Information Below:
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question 187

Multiple Choice

Answer the following questions using the information below:
As part of the budgeting process,Garden Gnomes Incorporated had developed the following static budget for the third quarter.Garden Gnomes is in the process of preparing the flexible budget and understanding the results.The actual information relates to the third quarter.
$\begin{array}{lrlr}&\text { Actual } & \text { Flexible } & \text { Static } \\&\text { Results } & \text { Budget } & \text { Budget }\\\text { Sales volume (in units) } & 13000 & \underline{\quad\quad} & 12000 \\& & & \\\text { Sales revenues } & \$ 257500 & \$ &\$ 250000 \\\text { Variable costs } & 154000 & \$\underline{\quad\quad} &\underline{180000} \\ & & & \\\text { Contribution margin } & 103500 & \$ & 70000 \\& & & \\\text { Fixed costs } & 50500 & \$\underline{\quad\quad} & 49500 \\\text { Operating profit } & \$ 53000 & \$\underline{\quad\quad} & \$ 20500\end{array}$

-More insight into the static-budget variance can be gained by subdividing it into:

• A)a cost hierarchy.
• B)the flexible-budget variance and the sales-volume variance.
• C)the sales-mix variance and the sales-quantity variance.
• D)the market-share variance and the market-size variance.

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Definitions:

Price-inelastic

Price-inelastic describes a situation where the demand for a product or service is relatively unresponsive to changes in its price.

Linear Demand Curve

A graphical representation showing a straight-line relationship between the quantity demanded of a good and its price.

Price Elasticity

A measure of the sensitivity of demand for a product in response to a change in its price.

Perfectly Elastic Demand

The case in which any price increase will cause the quantity demanded to drop to zero; the demand curve is a horizontal line.