Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $240 and $162, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $5 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 131,000 units of each product. Its unit costs for each product at this level of activity are given below:

	Alpha				Beta
Direct materials		$	35			$	15
Direct labor			48				23
Variable manufacturing overhead			27				25
Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead			35				38
Variable selling expenses			32				28
Common fixed expenses			35				30
Total cost per unit		$	212			$	159

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.

Required:

Assume that Cane normally produces and sells 60,000 Betas per year. If Cane discontinues the Beta product line, how much will profits increase or decrease? (Input the amount as positive value.)

profit ____(DecresDecreasecrease)______ by $___________