3-9 Exercises in Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships The Fresh Buy Grocers Corpora- tion owns and operates twelve supermarkets in and around Chicago. You are given the following corporate budget data for next year: Sales Fixed expenses Variable expenses $10,000,000 1,650,000 8,200,000 Compute expected profit for each of the following deviations from budgeted data. (Consider each case independently.)

a. 10 percent increase in total contribution margin

b. 10 percent decrease in total contribution margin

c. 5 percent increase in fixed costs

d. 5 percent decrease in fixed costs

e. 8 percent increase in sales volume

f. 8 percent decrease in sales volume g. 10 percent increase in fixed costs and 10 percent increase in sales volume h. 5 percent increase in fixed costs and 5 percent decrease in variable costs