Current Att Oriole Horticulture provides and maintains live plants in office buildings. The company's 888 customers, are charged $36 per month for this service, which includes weekly watering visits. The variable cost to service a customer's location is $19 per month. The company incurs $2,354 each month to maintain its fleet of four service vans and $3,130 each month in salaries. Oriole pays a bookkeeping service $2 per customer each month to handle all invoicing and accounting functions. (a) (b) What is the expected monthly operating income if 184 customers are added? Operating Income $ e Textbook and Media Save for Later Attempts: 0 of 3 used Submit Answer ( S ). Mr. Oriole is exploring options to reduce the annual bookkeeping costs. Option 1: Renegotiate the current contract with the bookkeeping service to pay a flat fee of $10,356 per year plus $1 per customer per month. Option 2: Hire a part-time bookkeeper for $18,416 per year to handle the invoicing and simple accounting. He would need to pay $6,300 per year to have taxes and year-end financial statements prepared. Compare the current bookkeeping cost with the two options at customer levels of 888, 1,637, and 1.698. 888 1,637 1,698 $ Current cost Option 1 $ Option 2