Climate$-$Control, Inc., manufactures a variety of heating and air$-$conditioning units. The company is currently manufacturing all of its own component parts. An outside supplier has offered to sell a thermostat to Climate$-$Control. To evaluate this offer, Climate$-$Control, Inc., has gathered the following information relating to its own cost of producing the thermostat internally:

$\backslash$table$[[,$Per Unit,Total$],[$Direct materials,$$6,$$$90,000,],[$Direct lab$,8,120,000,],[$Variable manufacturing overhead,$1,15,000,],[$Fixed manufacturing overhead, traceable$*,2,30,000,],[\backslash$table$[[$Fixed manufacturing overhead, common, but$],[$allocated$]],{10}_{?},150,{000}_{?},],[$Total$,$$$27,$$$405,000,]]$

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Assume the company has no alternative use for the facilities now being used to produce the thermostat. What is the maximum price at which Climate$-$Control would be indifferent between buying and making the thermostat?

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