Gabrielle's Glassworks makes glass flanges for scientific use. Materials cost $$1$ per flange, and the glass blowers are paid a wage rate of $$22$ per hour. A glass blower blows $10$ flanges per hour. Fixed manufacturing costs for flanges are $$27,000$ per period. Period $($non$-$manufacturing$)$ costs associated with flanges are $$10,000$ per period, and are fixed.

Requirements

Fred's Flasks, sells flanges for $$8\mathrm{.}50$ each. Can Gabrielle sell below Fred's price and still make a profit on the flanges Assume Gabrielle produces and sells $6,000$ flanges this period.

How would your answer to requirement $1$ diffeir if Gabrielle's Glassworks made and sold $10,000$ flanges this period? W does this indicate about the use of unit cost in decision making?