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Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $195 and $150, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $5 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 123,000 units of each product. Its unit costs for each product at this level of activity are given below:

	Alpha				Beta
Direct materials		$	40			$	15
Direct labor			34				28
Variable manufacturing overhead			22				20
Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead			30				33
Variable selling expenses			27				23
Common fixed expenses			30				25
Total cost per unit		$	183			$	144

Required:

The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be avoidable, whereas its common fixed expenses are deemed unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales dollars.

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