$60 per stove, and fixed expenses associated with the stove total $120,000 per month. Required: 1. Compute the company's break-even point in number of stoves and in total sales dollars. 2. If the variable expenses per stove increase as a percentage of the selling price, will it result in a higher or a lower break-even point? Why? (Assume that the fixed expenses remain unchanged.) 3. At present, the company is selling 8,000 stoves per month. The sales manager is convinced that a $3 per unit reduction in the selling price will result in a 20% increase in the number of stoves sold each month. Prepare two contribution format income statements: one under present operating conditions, and one as operations would appear after the proposed changes. Show both total and per-unit dat on your statements. 4. Refer to the data in Requirement (3) above. How many stoves would have to be sold at the new selling price to yield a minimum net