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Chapter 20: 13SE (page 1087)

Use the following information to complete Short Exercises S20-10 through S20-15.

Funday Park competes with Cool World by providing a variety of rides. Funday Park sells tickets at \(70 per person as a one-day entrance fee. Variable costs are \)42 per person, and fixed costs are \(170,800 per month.

Refer to the original information (ignoring the changes considered in Short Exercise S20-12). Suppose Funday Park increases fixed costs from \)170,800 per month to $231,000 per month. Compute the new breakeven point in tickets and in sales dollars.

Short Answer

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The breakeven sales in dollars is $577,500.

Step by step solution

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Calculation of Contribution margin ratio

Contributionmargin=Salesprice–Variablecost=$70-$42=$28Contributionmarginratio=ContributionmarginperunitSalesrevenue=$28$70=40%

02

Calculation of breakeven point in sales dollars

Salesrequiredindollars=Fixedcost+TargetprofitContributionmarginratio=$231,000+$040%=$577,500

03

Calculation of breakeven point in sales units

Salesrequiredinunits=Fixedcost+TargetprofitContributionmarginratio=$231,000+$0$28=8,250

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Use the following information to complete Short Exercises S20-16 and S20-17.

Wild Waters Swim Park sells individual and family tickets. With a ticket, each person receives a meal, three beverages, and unlimited use of the swimming pools. Wild Waters has the following ticket prices and variable costs for 2018:

Individual Family Sales price per ticket \( 50 \) 150 Variable cost per ticket 35 140

Wild Waters expects to sell one individual ticket for every four family tickets. Wild Waters’s total fixed costs are $27,500.

S20-17 Calculating breakeven point for two products

For 2019, Wild Waters expects a sales mix of four individual tickets for every one family ticket.

Requirements

1. Compute the new weighted-average contribution margin per ticket.

2. Calculate the total number of tickets Wild Waters must sell to break even.

3. Calculate the number of individual tickets and the number of family tickets the company must sell to break even.

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Requirements

1. Use the contribution margin ratio approach to find a franchise’s breakevensales in dollars.

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Question: Computing contribution margin in total, per unit, and as a ratio

Complete the table below for contribution margin per unit, total contribution margin, and contribution margin ratio:

A B C Number of units 1,720 units 14,920 units 4,620 units

Sales price per unit \( 1,800 \) 4,500 $ 5,550

Variable costs per unit 720 3,600 1,665

Calculate:                  

Contribution margin per unit                      

Total contribution margin                        

Contribution margin ratio

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Glenn Company sells a product for \(80 per unit. Variable costs are \)60 per unit, and fixed costs are $800 per month. The company expects to sell 560 units in September. Calculate the contribution margin per unit, in total, and as a ratio.
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