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Break-Even Sales M l - ' 0 son Coors Brewmg Company (TAP) reported the following operating information for a recent year (in millions): Sales $3,568 Cost of goods sold (2,164) Gross prot $1,404 Marketing, general, and admin. expenses (1,052) Operating income $352 * Before special items Assume that Molson-Coors sold 120 million barrels of beer during the year, variable costs were 70% of the cost of goods sold and 40% of marketing, general, and administrative expenses, and that the remaining costs are fixed. For the following year, assume that MolsonCoors expects pricing, variable costs per barrel, and fixed costs to remain constant, except that new distribution and general office facilities are expected to increase xed costs by $100 million. Round intermediate calculations to the nearest cent and the final answers to the nearest whole barrel. (Do not round to the nearest million.) a. Compute the break-even sales (barrels) for the current year. b. Compute the anticipated break-even sales (barrels) for the following year