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Bruce Corporation makes four products in a single facility. These products have the following unit product costs:
Direct materials
Direct labor
Variable manufacturing overhead
Fixed manufacturing overhead
Unit product cost
Additional data concerning these products are listed below.
Grinding minutes per unit
Selling price per unit
Variable selling cost per unit
Monthly demand in units
A
$ 14.00
19.10
4.00
26.20
$ 63.30
A
3.50
$ 75.80
$ 1.90
3,700
Products
B
$9.90
27.10
2.40
2.90
34.50
26.30
36.90
$ 73.90 $ 72.60 $ 90.20
C
$ 10.70
33.30
2.30
Products
B
5,00
$ 93.20
$0.90
3,700
с
4.00
$ 87.10
$ 3.00
2,700
$ 10.30
40.10
D
3.10
$ 103.90
$ 1.30
2,900
The grinding machines are potentially the constraint in the production facility. A total of 50,400 minutes are available per month on these machines.
Direct labor is a variable cost in this company.
Up to how much should the company be willing to pay for one additional minute of grinding machine time if the company has made the best use of
the existing grinding machine capacity? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)