Almona, Inc. is your dad’s company. It manufactures electrostatic generators for classroom demonstrations and has a capacity of 100,000 units per year. The fixed cost of the process is $150,000. If the generators sell for $90 each, what is the maximum variable cost per unit to break even when production is at 80% of capacity?   The maximum variable cost is $  per unit.

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  1. Almona, Inc. is your dad’s company. It manufactures electrostatic generators for classroom demonstrations and has a capacity of 100,000 units per year. The fixed cost of the process is $150,000. If the generators sell for $90 each, what is the maximum variable cost per unit to break even when production is at 80% of capacity?

 

The maximum variable cost is $  per unit.

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