Mercer Company Estimates That an Investment of $800,000 Would Be

question 19

Essay

Mercer Company estimates that an investment of $800,000 would be necessary in order to produce and sell 40,000 units of Product A each year. Costs associated with the new product would be: $\begin{array}{lll}\text { Variable costs (per unit): }&\\\text { Production } & \$ 30 \\\text { Selling and admintrative } & \$ 5\\\text { Fixed costs (per year): }&\\\text { Production } & \$ 300,000 \\\text { Selling and administrative } & \$ 240,000\end{array}$
The company requires a 20% rate of return on the investment on all products.
Required:
a. Compute the markup that would be used under the absorption costing approach to cost-plus pricing as described in the text.
b. Compute the selling price under the absorption costing approach to cost-plus pricing as described in the text.

Understand the concept and structure of a binary search tree.

Illustrate and manipulate data structures such as linked lists and binary search trees through diagrams.

Comprehend the functionality and applications of the head variable in linked lists.

Apply operations such as insertion and deletion on linked lists.

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