Division X makes a part with the following characteristics: Production capacity in units 33,500
Selling price to outside customers $23
Variable cost per unit $17
Fixed cost, total $100,400
Division Y, another division of the same company would like to purchase 14,300 units of the part each period from Division X. Division Y is now purchasing these parts from an outside supplier at a price of $19 each.
Suppose Division X has ample idle capacity to handle all of Division Y's needs without any increase in fixed costs and without cutting into sales to outside customers. If Division X refuses to accept the $19 price internally and Division Y continues to buy from the outside supplier, the company as a whole will be:.
a. worse off by $85,800 each period.
b. better off by $57,200 each period.
c. worse off by $28,600 each period.
d. worse off by $114,400 each period.