Dropping a Product Line

question 145

Essay

Dropping a product line.Sparkle Products,a Christmas ornament manufacturer,operates at capacity.Constrained by machine time,the company decides to drop the most unprofitable of its three product lines.The accounting department came up with the following data from last year's operations:

Required:
Which line should Sparkle Products drop? (Hint: Compute the contribution per machine hour because machine time is the constraint. )
(Sparkle Products;dropping a product line. )

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