Margin of Safety Comer Company produces and sells strings of colorful indoor/outdoor lights for holiday display to retailers for $17.71 per string. The variable costs per string are as follows: Direct materials $1.87 Direct labor 1.70 Variable factory overhead 0.57 Variable selling expense 0.42 Fixed manufacturing cost totals $789,000 per year. Administrative cost fixed) totals $644,350. Comer expects to sell 239,200 strings of light next year. Required: 1. Calculate the break-even point in units. units 2. Calculate the margin of safety in units. units 3. Calculate the margin of safety in dollars. 4. Conceptual Connection: Suppose Comer actually experiences a price decrease next year while all other costs and the number of units sold remain the same. Would this increase or decrease risk for the company? (Hint: Consider what would happen to the number of break-even units and to the margin of safety.) Increase Decrease