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Health-Temp Company is a placement agency for temporary nurses. It serves hospitals and clinics throughout the metropolitan area. Health-Temp Company believes it will place temporary

Health-Temp Company is a placement agency for temporary nurses. It serves hospitals and clinics throughout the metropolitan area. Health-Temp Company believes it will place temporary nurses for a total of 27,000 hours next year. Health-Temp charges the hospitals and clinics $130 per hour and has variable costs of $109.20 per hour (this includes the payment to the nurse). Total fixed costs equal $547,040.


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1. Calculate the contribution margin per unit and the contribution margin ratio (express the ratio as a decimal rather than a percentage). If required, round your answers to two decimal places.

Contribution margin per unit

$

Contribution margin ratio


2. Calculate the sales revenue needed to break even.
$

3. Calculate the sales revenue needed to achieve a target profit of $128,960.
$

4. What if Health-Temp had target operating income (profit) of $158,080? Would sales revenue be larger or smaller than the one calculated in Requirement 3?
- Larger OR Smaller?

By how much?

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