Metlock & Sons produces tomato juice and tomato puree from fresh tomatoes grown by local farmers. The company purchases large crates of tomatoes and then washes, sorts, scalds, peels, and crushes them, at which point the juice and the pulp are separately identifiable. Metlock currently processes the pulp further to transform it into his great-great-grandmother's secret-recipe spaghetti sauce. The specifics on each of these products for one month are as follows. Joint processing costs $180,000 Quantity of tomato juice produced Value of tomato juice 5,000 gallons $10 per gallon Quantity of tomato puree produced 15,000 pounds Additional cost to make spaghetti sauce $18,000 Final sales value of spaghetti sauce $198,000 (a) Using the NRV method for allocating joint costs, specify how much joint cost will be allocated to the juice and to the puree/spaghetti sauce. (Round proportion to 4 decimal places, eg. 0.2516 and final answers to 2 decimal places, eg. 15.25.) Juice Puree/Sauce Allocated joint costs $ $ eTextbook and Media Save for Later Attempts: 0 of 2 used Submit Answer Metlock recently became aware of consumer preferences for flavored tomato juice. With some slight modifications to his facility, he could process the tomato juice further and turn it into clam-flavored tomato juice for an additional processing cost of $1,500. With no change in total volume, this flavored juice could sell for $55,000. Given this new information, recalculate the joint cost allocations for both joint products under the NRV method. (Round proportion to 4 decimal places, e.g. 0.2516 and final answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25.) (c) Allocated joint costs $ eTextbook and Media Save for Later Juice Puree Attempts: 0 of 2 used Submit Answer Assuming that Metlock could otherwise sell the tomato puree as-is for $159,000 (instead of turning it into spaghetti sauce), would you recommend that he process both of these products past the split-off point? Show how much better or worse off Metlock would be if the puree and the juice are both processed further. Juice Net benefit $ Puree $ Metlock & Sons is therefore off point. by a total $ by processing both products beyond the split- eTextbook and Media