The demand for Bioway Inc. follows an up and down pattern. The quarterly demand is forecasted as below for this company: Quarter Demand forecast 1 70,000 2 100,000 3 50,000 4 150,000 The company’s accounting department has done extensive research and found the following information: Beginning workforce = 40 workers Production per employee = 1,250 units per quarter Hiring cost = $413 per worker Firing cost = $500 per worker Inventory carrying cost = $2.1 per unit per quarter Regular production cost = $10 per unit The company also mandates a 40 hour work week with no overtime or subcontracting. At the end of each year, the company would like to zero out their inventory (i. e., have zero ending inventory). Given the above information, what is the cost of Level strategy? Provide your answers as a number without units or commas. For example, if the answer is $2,450,000 then input 2450000.

The chromosome manufacturing company produces two products, x and y. the company president, jean mutation, is concerned about the fierce competition in the market for product x. she notes that competitors are selling x for a price well below chromosome's price of $13.50. at the same time, she notes that competitors are pricing product y almost twice as high as chromosome's price of $12.50.ms. mutation has obtained the following data for a recent time period: product x product y number of units 11,000 3,000 direct materials cost per unit $3.23 $3.09 direct labor cost per unit $2.22 $2.10 direct labor hours 10,000 3,500 machine hours 2,100 1,800 inspection hours 80 100 purchase orders 10 30ms. mutation has learned that overhead costs are assigned to products on the basis of direct labor hours. the overhead costs for this time period consisted of the following items: overhead cost item amount inspection costs $16,200 purchasing costs 8,000 machine costs 49,000 total $73,200using direct labor hours to allocate overhead costs determine the gross margin per unit for product x. choose the best answer from the list below.a. $1.93b. $3.12c. $7.38d. $2.43e. $1.73using activity-based costing for overhead allocation, determine the gross margin per unit for product y. choose best answer from list below.a. $10.07b. ($2.27)c. ($5.23)d. ($7.02)e. $7.02