You are a professor of economics at a university. you've been offered the position of serving as department head, which comes with an annual salary that is $8 comma 5008,500 higher than your current salary. however, the position will require you to work 200 additional hours per year. suppose the next best use of your time is spending it with your family, which has value of $2020 per hour.

Solomon chemical company makes three products, b7, k6, and x9, which are joint products from the same materials. in a standard batch of 320,000 pounds of raw materials, the company generates 70,000 pounds of b7, 150,000 pounds of k6, and 100,000 pounds of x9. a standard batch costs $3,840,000 to produce. the sales prices per pound are $10, $14, and $20 for b7, k6, and x9, respectively. (a) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using weight as the allocation base. (b) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using market value as the allocation base. (c) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using weight as the allocation base.