8)

Colt Company owns a machine that can produce two specialized products. Production time for Product TLX is two units per hour and for Product MTV is four units per hour. The machine?s capacity is 2,000 hours per year. Both products are sold to a single customer who has agreed to buy all of the company?s output up to a maximum of 3,400 units of Product TLX and 1,650 units of Product MTV. Selling prices and variable costs per unit to produce the products follow.

	Product TLX		Product MTV
Selling price per unit		$	13.50				$	8.10
Variable costs per unit			4.05					4.86

Determine the company's most profitable sales mix and the contribution margin that results from that sales mix.(Round cost per unit answers to 2 decimal places.)

Product TLX Product MTV Contribution Margin per unit Contribution margin per production hour TLX Maximum # of units to be sold MTV 3400 Total 1650 Hours required to produce maximum units For most profitable sales mix Hrs dedicated to the production of each product Units produced for most profitable sales mix Contribution margin per unit total contribution margin TLX MTV Total