In response to a growing awareness of gluten allergies, Cullumber Bakery tried using gluten-free flour in its three most popular cookies. After several attempts and a lot of inedible cookies, the company perfected new recipes that yield delicious gluten-free cookies. The costs of producing a batch of 100 cookies are as follows:

		Chocolate Chip		Sugar		Oatmeal Raisin
Sales price			$117				$110				$117
Variable cost			$65				$70				$75
Fixed cost			17				14				19
Total cost			82				84				94
Gross profit			$35				$26				$23
Pounds of flour			2.5				2.5				2

(a)

Assuming no raw material constraints and unlimited demand for cookies, calculate contribution margin per batch for Chocolate Chip, Sugar, Oatmeal Raisin cookies. (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 52.75.)

Cookies		Contribution Margin
Chocolate Chip		$enter a dollar amount rounded to 2 decimal places
Sugar		$enter a dollar amount rounded to 2 decimal places
Oatmeal Raisin		$enter a dollar amount rounded to 2 decimal places

What type of cookie would maximize the company's contribution margin?

select a type of cookie Chocolate ChipSugarOatmeal Raisin

(b)

Assume that, based on typical customer demand, Cullumber will sell 11,000 batches of chocolate chip cookies, 7,000 batches of sugar cookies, and 9,000 batches of oatmeal raisin cookies. What will the company's contribution margin be?

The company's contribution margin

$enter the company's contribution margin in dollars

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(c)

Cullumber's flour supplier has announced a shortage of gluten-free flour. As a result, Cullumber will only be able to purchase 45,500 pounds of flour. How many batches of each type of cookie should the company bake?

		Batches
Chocolate Chip		enter a number of batches
Sugar		enter a number of batches
Oatmeal Raisin		enter a number of batches

What will the company's contribution margin be?

The company's contribution margin

$enter the company's contribution margin in dollars

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(d)

If Cullumber uses gluten-free flour in other products, will the allocation you recommend in part (c) change?