Outdoor Luggage, Inc., makes high-end hard-sided luggage for sports equipment. Data concerning three of the company's most popular models appear below.

Ski Guard Golf Guard Fishing Guard

Selling price per unit $ 220 $ 250 $ 225

Variable cost per unit $ 100 $ 110 $ 115

Plastic injection molding machine processing

time required to produce one unit 5 minutes 9 minutes 8 minutes Pounds of plastic pellets per unit 14 pounds 8 pounds 6 pounds

Required:

1. If we assume that the total time available on the plastic injection molding machine is the constraint in the production process, how much contribution margin per minute of the constrained resource is earned by each product?

2. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic injection molding machine?

3. If we assume that a severe shortage of plastic pellets has required the company to cut back its production so much that its new constraint has become the total available pounds of plastic pellets, how much contribution margin per pound of the constrained resource is earned by each product?

4. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic pellets?

5. Which product has the largest contribution margin per unit?

Required 1

If we assume that the total time available on the plastic injection molding machine is the constraint in the production process, how much contribution margin per minute of the constrained resource is earned by each product? (Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.)

Contribution margin per minute of the constrained resource ______ (ski guard) per minute ____ (golf guard) per minute ______ (fishing guard) per minute

Required 2

Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic injection molding machine?

Is Ski Guard

Required 3

If we assume that a severe shortage of plastic pellets has required the company to cut back its production so much that its new constraint has become the total available pounds of plastic pellets, how much contribution margin per pound of the constrained resource is earned by each product? (Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.)

Contribution margin per pound of the constrained resource ______ (ski guard) per pound _____ (golf guard) per pound ______ (fishing guard) per pound

Required 4

Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic pellets?

Is Fishing Guard

Required 5

Which product has the largest contribution margin per unit?

Is Golf Guard