Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $215 and $160, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $7 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 125,000 units of each product. Its unit costs for each product at this level of activity are given below: Alpha Beta Direct materials $ 42 $ 21 Direct labor 35 28 Variable manufacturing overhead 23 21 Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead 31 34 Variable selling expenses 28 24 Common fixed expenses 31 26 Total cost per unit $ 190 $ 154 The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be avoidable, whereas its common fixed expenses are deemed unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales dollars

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Assume that Cane expects to produce and sell 96,000 Alphas during the current year. A supplier has offered to manufacture and deliver 96,000 Alphas to Cane for a price of $144 per unit. If Cane buys 96,000 units from the supplier instead of making those units, how much will profits increase or decrease?