At the end of the year, a company offered to buy 4,710 units of a product from X Company for $12.00 each instead of the company's regular price of $19.00 each. The following income statement is for the 60,600 units of the product that X Company has already made and sold to its regular customers:

Sales		$1,151,400
Cost of goods sold		495,102
Gross margin		$656,298
Selling and administrative costs		149,682
Profit		$506,616

For the year, fixed cost of goods sold were $115,746, and fixed selling and administrative costs were $78,780. The special order product has some unique features that will require additional material costs of $0.74 per unit and the rental of special equipment for $2,500. 4. Profit on the special order would be

A: $10,717

B: $15,539

C: $22,532

D: $32,671

E: $47,373

F: $68,692

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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 $0.15. The effect of reducing the selling price will be to decrease firm profits by