As a start$-$up company, Vaughn Enterprises encourages its employees to think through the entire value chain to estimate whether it might be worthwhile to take a risk on new products. As part of that program, Helen is reviewing a product concept that her intern presented to her. The basic idea is to use a common process, which would result in two intermediate products. One product could be sold right away $(x).$ The other product $(Y)$ would have no immediate sales value but after further processing would yield a very highvalue product. Helen is intrigued enough to dig further into her intern's quantitative analysis, as follows.

$\backslash$table$[[$Sales value of X immediately after the joint process,$$47,520$