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Cruiseline offers nightly dinner cruises departing from several cities on the East Coast of the United States including Charleston, Baltimore, and Alexandria. Dinner cruise tickets sell for

$50

per passenger.

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Cruiseline's variable cost of providing the dinner is

$20

per passenger, and the fixed cost of operating the vessels (depreciation, salaries, docking fees, and other expenses) is

$270,000

per month. The company's relevant range extends to

18,000

monthly passengers.

Use this information to compute the following:

a. What is the contribution margin per passenger?

b. What is the contribution margin ratio?

c. Use the unit contribution margin to project operating income if monthly sales total

15,000

passengers.

d. Use the contribution margin ratio to project operating income if monthly sales revenue totals

$520,000.

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Part 1

a. What is the contribution margin per passenger?

First identify the formula, then compute the contribution margin per passenger.