"A customer is long 1,000 shares of ABCD stock. It is now September and the customer is worried that the price of ABCD may decline, but does not want to sell the stock until the end of this year. She is very cost-conscious and wants a strategy to protect the stock from a falling market at minimal cost. You should recommend that she:"

Bcorporation, a merchandising company, reported the following results for october: sales $ 490,000 cost of goods sold (all variable) $ 169,700 total variable selling expense $ 24,200 total fixed selling expense $ 21,700 total variable administrative expense $ 13,200 total fixed administrative expense $ 33,600 the contribution margin for october is: