Rugrat company has the following information for the current year: beginning fixed manufacturing overhead in inventory $190,000 fixed manufacturing overhead in production 750,000 ending fixed manufacturing overhead in inventory 50,000 beginning variable manufacturing overhead in inventory $20,000 variable manufacturing overhead in production 100,000 ending variable manufacturing overhead in inventory 30,000 what is the difference between operating incomes under absorption costing and variable costing?

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east westsales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 )the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss) of: multiple choice$91,900$(64,100)$(142,000)$(50,100)