Delite Confectionary Company produces various types of candies. Several candies could be sold at the split-off point or processed further and sold in a different form after further processing. The candies are produced in a joint processing operation with $500,000 of joint processing costs monthly, which are allocated based on pounds produced. Information concerning this process for a recent month appears below:

Candy Type	# of pounds	Price per pound at split-off	Further processing cost	Price after processing further
Caramel	50,000	$8	$75,000	$10.00
Chocolate	100,000	$10	$30,000	$10.50
Mint	25,000	$5	$20,000	$5.50

The net advantage (disadvantage) of processing Caramel further is:

$25,000 disadvantage

$32,143 advantage

$ 25,000 advantage

$282,143 disadvantage