4-5) Time allowed: 20 minutes Barlow Company manufactures three products: A, B and C. The selling price, variable costs and contribution margin for one unit of each product follow: Product 180 270 2240 32/8=4 148 Selling price Less variable expenses: Direct materials Other variable expenses Total variable expenses Contribution margin Contribution margin ratio 24/8=3 102 126 54 30% 72/829 90 162 108 40% 180 260 25% The same raw material is used in all three products. Barlow Company has only 5.000 kilos of material on hand and will not be able to obtain any more material for several weeks due to a strike in its supplier's plant. Management is trying to decide which product(s) to concentrate on next week in filling its backlog of orders. The material costs 8 per kilo. Required 1 Compute the amount of contribution margin that will be obtained per kilo of material used in each product. 2 Which orders would you recommend that the company work on next week- the orders for product A, product B, or product C? Show computations. 3 A foreign supplier could furnish Barlow with additional stocks of the raw material at a substantial premium over the usual price. If there is unfilled demand for all three products, what is the highest price that Barlow Company should be willing to pay for an additional kilo of materials