Plato Corporation manufactures two products, Alpha and Beta. Contribution margin data follow.

Past experience has shown that the fixed manufacturing overhead component included in the cost per machine hour averages \($30\) . Management has a policy of filling all sales orders, even if it means purchasing units from outside suppliers.

Required:

1. If 50,000 machine hours are available, and management desires to follow an optimal strategy, how many units of each product should the firm manufacture? How many units of each product should be purchased?
2. With all other things constant, if management is able to reduce the direct material for a food processor to \($18\) per unit, how many units of each product should be manufactured? Purchased?

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Unit sales price... Less variable cost: Direct material Alpha Beta $39.00 $93.00 $21.00 $15.00 Direct labor... 3.00 18.00 Variable overhead.. 3.75 22.50 Variable selling and administrative cost... 2.25 1.50 (continues)