At the end of the year, a company offered to buy 4,320 units of a product from X Company for $12.00 each instead of the company's regular price of $17.00 each. The following income statement is for the 67,300 units of the product that X Company has already made and sold to its regular customers:

Sales		$1,144,100
Cost of goods sold		519,556
Gross margin		$624,544
Selling and administrative costs		139,311
Profit		$485,233

For the year, variable cost of goods sold were $383,610, and variable selling and administrative costs were $67,973. The special order product has some unique features that will require additional material costs of $0.77 per unit and the rental of special equipment for $3,000. 4. Profit on the special order would be

A: $16,526

B: $18,675

C: $21,103

D: $23,846

E: $26,946

F: $30,449

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5. The marketing manager thinks that if X Company accepts the special order, regular customers will be lost unless the selling price for them is reduced by $0.10. The effect of reducing the selling price will be to decrease firm profits by

A: $3,805

B: $5,060

C: $6,730

D: $8,951

E: $11,905