Prior to Installing a JIT System, Clark Company Used Machine

question 88

Multiple Choice

Prior to installing a JIT system, Clark Company used machine hours to assign maintenance costs to its three products of 4-inch, 6-inch, and 9-inch insulation.The maintenance costs totaled $400,000 per year.The machine hours used by each product and the quantity produced of each product are as follows: After installing JIT, three manufacturing cells were created and the cell workers were trained to perform maintenance.Maintenance costs for the three cells still totaled $400,000; however, these costs are now traceable to each cell.

-After installing JIT, the maintenance cost per roll of 9-inch insulation would be

• A) $15.00.
• B) $12.86.
• C) $12.50.
• D) $5.86.

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Definitions:

Perfectly Elastic

This term describes a situation in market economics where the quantity demanded or supplied responds infinitely to changes in price.

Relatively Elastic

Describes a situation where the quantity demanded or supplied changes significantly in response to a change in price.

Unit Elastic

A demand or supply situation where a percentage change in price leads to an equal percentage change in the quantity demanded or supplied.

Market Period

A very short time frame in which the supply of a good is completely inelastic, meaning that the quantity cannot be changed in response to a change in price.