Barlow Company manufactures three products: A, B, and C. The selling price, variable costs, and contribution margin for one unit of each product follow Product Selling price $200 $300 $280 Variable expenses 28 Direct materials Other variable 70 35 112 110 175 expenses 180 Total variable expenses Contribution margin Contribution margin 140 210 $ 60 120 $ 70 ratio 30% 40% 25% The same raw material is used in all three products. Barlow Company has only 5,600 pounds of raw material on hand and will not be able to obtain any more of it for several weeks due to a strike in its supplier's plant. Management is trying to decide which product(s) to concentrate on next week in filling its backlog of orders. The material costs $7 per pound 1. Compute the amount of contribution margin that will be obtained per pound of material used in each product. 60 $ 120 $ Contribution margin per unit Direct material cost per unit Direct material cost per pound Pounds of material required per unit Contribution margin per pound 70 35 7 28 S 70 $ 4 10 15 S 12 $ 14 2a. Compute the amount of contribution margin on each product. 15S 12S Contribution margin per pound Pounds of material available Total contribution margin 14 5,600 78,400 5,600 5,600 84,000 67,200$ 3. A foreign supplier could furnish Barlow with additional stocks of the raw material at a substantial premium over the usual price. If there is unfilled demand for all three products, what is the highest price that Barlow Company should be willing to pay for an additional pound of materials? Maximum amount per pound