Green Acres Company Provides Home Health Care

question 120

Multiple Choice

Green Acres Company provides home health care. Green Acres charges $35 per hour for professional care. Variable casts are $21 per hour and fixed costs are $78,000. Next year, Green Acres expects to charge out 12,000 hours of home health care.
-Refer to the Figure.What is the break-even point in sales dollars?

• A)$130,000
• B)$195,000
• C)$252,000
• D)$342,000

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Definitions:

Marginal Costs

The increase in total production cost that arises from producing one additional unit of a good or service.

Average Fixed Cost Curve

A graph that shows the fixed costs of production divided by the quantity of output produced, illustrating how these costs dilute over larger production volumes.

U-Shaped

A descriptive term often used in economics and statistics to describe a graph or curve that resembles the shape of the letter "U", indicating a particular kind of relationship or trend.

Positive Amount

A value that is greater than zero, indicating a quantity that adds to a total rather than subtracting from it.