Health-Temp Company is a placement agency for temporary nurses. It serves hospitals and clinics throughout the metropolitan area. Health-Temp Company believes it will place temporary nurses for a total of 26,000 hours next year. Health-Temp charges the hospitals and clinics $90 per hour and has variable costs of $72.00 per hour (this includes the payment to the nurse). Total fixed costs equal $455,400.

Required:

1. Calculate the contribution margin per unit and the contribution margin ratio (express the ratio as a decimal rather than a percentage). If required, round your answers to two decimal places.

Contribution margin per unit	$fill in the blank 1
Contribution margin ratio	fill in the blank 2

2. Calculate the sales revenue needed to break even. $fill in the blank 3

3. Calculate the sales revenue needed to achieve a target profit of $111,600. $fill in the blank 4

4. What if Health-Temp had target operating income (profit) of $136,800? Would sales revenue be larger or smaller than the one calculated in Requirement 3?

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By how much? $fill in the blank 6