Crossfire Company segments its business into two regionsEast and West. The company prepared a contribution format segmented income statement as shown below:

	Total Company			East			West
Sales	$	1,120,000		$	770,000		$	350,000
Variable expenses		840,000			616,000			224,000
Contribution margin		280,000			154,000			126,000
Traceable fixed expenses		155,000			65,000			90,000
Segment margin		125,000		$	89,000		$	36,000
Common fixed expenses		70,000
Net operating income	$	55,000

Required:

1. Compute the companywide break-even point in dollar sales.

2. Compute the break-even point in dollar sales for the East region.

3. Compute the break-even point in dollar sales for the West region.

4. Prepare a new segmented income statement based on the break-even dollar sales that you computed in requirements 2 and 3. What is Crossfires net operating income (loss) in your new segmented income statement?

5. Do you think that Crossfire should allocate its common fixed expenses to the East and West regions when computing the break-even points for each region?