Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $175 and $135, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $5 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 117,000 units of each product. Its average cost per unit for each product at this level of activity are given below:

	Alpha				Beta
Direct materials		$	40			$	15
Direct labor			30				30
Variable manufacturing overhead			18				16
Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead			26				29
Variable selling expenses			23				19
Common fixed expenses			26				21
Total cost per unit		$	163			$	130

The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be avoidable, whereas its common fixed expenses are unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales dollars.

1. Assume that Cane expects to produce and sell 91,000 Alphas during the current year. A supplier has offered to manufacture and deliver 91,000 Alphas to Cane for a price of $124 per unit. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 91,000 units from the supplier instead of making those units?

2. Assume that Cane expects to produce and sell 61,000 Alphas during the current year. A supplier has offered to manufacture and deliver 61,000 Alphas to Cane for a price of $124 per unit. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 61,000 units from the supplier instead of making those units?

3. How many pounds of raw material are needed to make one unit of each of the two products?

4. What contribution margin per pound of raw material is earned by each of the two products? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)