Exercise 12-17 Sell or Process Further [L02] The Fraser Paper Company produces large rolls of white paper weighing 1,000 kilograms for wholesalers for $1,500 each. The wholesalers then cut the paper into standard-sized sheets and package it in 2-kilogram packages. These packages are sold to printers for $4 per package. There is no waste in the cutting process. Fraser Paper currently produces 5 million kilograms of paper annually at a fixed cost of $1 million and a variable cost of $0.80 per kilogram. |f Fraser bypassed the wholesalers and cut its own paper for sale directly to printers, Fraser would have to add equipment and personnel with an annual fixed cost of $650,000. Incremental variable costs would be $0.10 per kilogram. Required: 1-a. Calculate the annual profit from further processing. (Enter your answer in whole dollars, not in millions.) :| 1-b. Should Fraser cut its own paper or continue to sell to wholesalers? 0 Continue to sell to wholesalers @ Cut the pa per themselves