Produces decorative mailboxes. the company's average cost per unit is $ 23.43 when it produces 1 comma 400 mailboxes. requirements 1. what is the total cost of producing 1 comma 400 mailboxes? 2. if $ 20 comma 202 of the total costs are fixed, what is the variable cost of producing each mailbox? 3. write rollins mailbox's cost equation. 4. if the plant manager uses the average cost per unit to predict total costs, what would the forecast be for 1 comma 500 mailboxes? 5. if the plant manager uses the cost equation to predict total costs, what would the forecast be for 1 comma 500 mailboxes? 6. what is the dollar difference between your answers to questions 4 and 5? which approach to forecasting costs is appropriate? why?

Vortex company operates a retail store with two departments. information about those departments follows. department a department b sales $ 800,000 $ 450,000 cost of goods sold 497,000 291,000 direct expenses salaries 125,000 88,000 insurance 20,000 10,000 utilities 24,000 14,000 depreciation 21,000 12,000 maintenance 7,000 5,000 the company also incurred the following indirect costs. salaries $36,000 insurance 6,000 depreciation 15,000 office expenses 50,000 indirect costs are allocated as follows: salaries on the basis of sales; insurance and depreciation on the basis of square footage; and office expenses on the basis of number of employees. additional information about the departments follows. department square footage number of employees a 28,000 75 b 12,000 50 required: 1. determine the departmental contribution to overhead and the departmental net income for department a and department b.