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.

S20-16 Calculating breakeven point for two products

Using the Wild Waters Swim Park information presented, do the following tasks.

Requirements

1. Compute the 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.

Step by step solution

01

Computation of the weighted-average contribution margin per ticket

	Individual	Family	Total
Sales price per unit	$50	$150
Variable cost per unit +	$35	$140
Contribution margin per unit	$15	$10
Sales mix in units	X 1 ticket	x 4 Tickets	5 tickets
Contribution margin	$15	$40	$ 55
Weighted-average contribution margin per unit ( tickets)			$11

02

Calculation of total number of tickets Wild Waters must sell to interrupt even

$\begin{array}{c}\mathbf{Break}\mathbf{}\mathbf{even}\mathbf{}\mathbf{tickets}\mathbf{=}\frac{\mathrm{Fixed}\mathrm{cost}}{\mathrm{Weight}\mathrm{edaverage}\mathrm{contribution}\mathrm{margin}\mathrm{per}\mathrm{unit}}\\ \mathbf{=}\frac{\$27,500}{\$11}\\ =2,500\mathrm{tickets}\end{array}$

03

Calculation of breakeven sales of individual tickets and family tickets

Particulars	Amount
Breakeven sales of individual tickets	$\mathbf{2}\mathbf{,}\mathbf{500}\mathbf{}\mathbf{ticketsx}\mathbf{1}\mathbf{/}\mathbf{5}\mathbf{=}\mathbf{500}\mathbf{}\mathbf{tickets}$
Breakeven sales of family tickets	$\mathbf{2}\mathbf{,}\mathbf{500}\mathbf{}\mathbf{tickets}\mathbf{}\mathbf{x}\mathbf{}\mathbf{4}\mathbf{/}\mathbf{5}\mathbf{=}\mathbf{2}\mathbf{,}\mathbf{000}\mathbf{}\mathbf{tickets}$

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