General Accounting Tyrene Products manufactures recreational equipment. One of the company's products, askateboard, sells for $32. The skateboards are manufactured in an antiquated plant that reliesheavily on direct labor workers. Thus, variable costs are high, totaling $22.40 per skateboardof which 70% is direct labor cost. Over the past year the company sold 45,000 skateboards,with the following operating results:Financial data for Tyrene Products Values in $Sales (45,000 skateboards)Variable expensesContribution marginFixes expenses1,440,0001,008,000432,000Net operating income288,000144,000Management is anxious to maintain and perhaps even improve its present level of incomefrom the skateboards.Compute the degree of operating leverage at last year's level of sales. Degree of operatingleverage:

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