An outside supplier has offered to sell 17,000 units of part s-6 each year to han products for $39.50 per part. if han products accepts this offer, the facilities now being used to manufacture part s-6 could be rented to another company at an annual rental of $351,100. however, han products has determined that two-thirds of the fixed manufacturing overhead being applied to part s-6 would continue even if part s-6 were purchased from the outside supplier.

Abc computer company has a $20 million factory in silicon valley in which in builds computer components. during the current year, abc's costs are labor (wages) of $1.01.0 million; interest on debt of $0.20.2 million; and taxes of $0.20.2 million. abc sells all its output to xyz supercomputer for $2.62.6 million. using abc's components, xyz builds four supercomputers at a cost of $0.8500.850 million each, which comes from $0.6500.650 million worth of components, $0.10.1 million in labor costs, and $0.10.1 million in taxes per computer. xyz has a $30 million factory. xyz sells three of the supercomputers to other businesses for $1.81.8 million each. at year's end, it had not sold the fourth. the unsold computer is carried on xyz's books as a $0.8500.850 million increase in inventory.

In the supply-and-demand schedule shown above, at the lowest price of $50, producers supply music players and consumers demand music players.

At which stage would you introduce your product to the market at large? a. development stage b. market testing stage c. commercialization stage d. ideation stage