Required: Answer the following independent questions and show computations using the contribution margin technique to support your answers. 3- If the company is presently selling 50,000 units, but plans to spend an additional $108,000 on an advertising program, how many additional units must the company sell to earn the same net income it is now making? 4- Using the original data in the problem, compute a new break-even point in units if the unit sales price is increased 20%, unit variable cost is increased by 10%, and total fixed costs are increased by $236,250

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Blue Company developed the following information for its product:

                                                        Per Unit

Sales price                                           $90

Variable cost                                       63

Contribution margin                           $27

Total fixed costs                                 $1,215,000

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Answer the following independent questions and show computations using the contribution margin technique to support your answers.

3- If the company is presently selling 50,000 units, but plans to spend an additional $108,000 on an advertising program, how many additional units must the company sell to earn the same net income it is now making?

4- Using the original data in the problem, compute a new break-even point in units if the unit sales price is increased 20%, unit variable cost is increased by 10%, and total fixed costs are increased by $236,250

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