company is currently operating at $82$ percent of capacity. Worried about the company's performance, the chief marketing officer is

considering dropping the canned sweet peas. If sweet peas are dropped, the revenue associated with it would be lost and the related

variable costs saved. In addition, the company's total fixed costs would be reduced by $15$ percent.

Segmented income statements appear as follows:

Required:

a$.$ Prepare a differential cost schedule.

b$.$ Should Gilbert Canned Produce drop the sweet pea product line?

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Prepare a differential cost schedule. $($Select option "increase" or "decrease", keeping Status Quo as the base. Select "none" if

there is no effect.$)$