One hot august afternoon, as nelson is driving home from work, he sees a billboard for breyer's ice cream. he remembers that he is out of ice cream at home, and thinks it would be really great to have a nice, cold bowl of ice cream on such a hot day. so he stops into the convenience store near his home, heads straight for the dairy case, and picks up a half-gallon of strawberry ice cream.

Aaron corporation, which has only one product, has provided the following data concerning its most recent month of operations: selling price $ 102 units in beginning inventory 0 units produced 4,900 units sold 4,260 units in ending inventory 640 variable costs per unit: direct materials $ 20 direct labor $ 41 variable manufacturing overhead $ 5 variable selling and administrative expense $ 4 fixed costs: fixed manufacturing overhead $ 64,200 fixed selling and administrative expense $ 2,900 the total contribution margin for the month under variable costing is: