Barlow company manufactures three products: a, b, and
c. the selling price, variable costs, and contribution margin for one unit of each product follow: product a b c selling price $ 240 $ 320 $ 300 variable expenses: direct materials 18 72 27 other variable expenses 174 152 228 total variable expenses 192 224 255 contribution margin $ 48 $ 96 $ 45 contribution margin ratio 20 % 30 % 15 % the same raw material is used in all three products. barlow company has only 4,900 pounds of raw material on hand and will not be able to obtain any more of it for several weeks due to a strike in its supplier's plant. management is trying to decide which product(s) to concentrate on next week in filling its backlog of orders. the material costs $9 per pound.

Question 3 options: ps.55 four corners is an ibc company that sells delicious navajo tacos in the crossroads food court. part of their success can be attributed to the freshly fried indian bread that is used not only for the tacos, but also for dessert items. as demand grows the fry-bread process is becoming a bottleneck. operations management for the company is looking at two different process options to replace the highly manual process currently being used. option 1 (medium automation) would cost $175 to implement whereas option 2 (high automation) would cost $350. with option 1 the variable cost per fry bread produced would be $0.20. the variable cost for option 2 would be $0.09 per fry bread. at what volume (demand) of fry breads is the cost for the two options the same? (display your answer to two decimal places.)