(Prepared from a situation suggested by Professor John W. Hardy.) Lone Star Meat Packers is a major processor of beef and other meat products. The company has a large amount of T-bone steak on hand, and it is trying to decide whether to sell the T-bone steaks as they are initially cut or to process them further into filet mignon and the New York cut. If the T-bone steaks are sold as initially cut, the company figures that a 1-pound T- bone steak would yield the following profit: $ 2.00 Selling price ($2.00 per pound) Less joint costs incurred up to the split-off point where T-bone steak can be identified as a separate product 1.45 Profit per pound 0.55 $ As mentioned above, instead of being sold as initially cut, the T-bone steaks could be further processed into filet mignon and New York cut steaks. Cutting one side of a T- bone steak provides the filet mignon, and cutting the other side provides the New York cut. One 16-ounce T-bone steak cut in this way will yield one 6-ounce filet mignon and one 8-ounce New York cut; the remaining ounces are waste. The cost of processing the T-bone steaks into these cuts is $0.14 per pound. The filet mignon can be sold for $3.60 per pound, and the New York cut can be sold for $3.50 per pound. Required: 1. Determine the profit per pound from processing the T-bone steaks into filet mignon and New York cut steaks. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.) Per 16-Ounce T-Bone Sales from further processing: Sales price of one filet mignon Sales price of one New York cut Total revenue from further processing 0.00 Less sales revenue from one T-bone steak Incremental revenue from further processing 0.00 Less cost of further processing Profit(loss) per pound from further processing 0.00 2. Would you recommend that the T-bone steaks be sold as initially cut or processed further? O T-bone steaks should be processed further. O T-bone steaks should be sold as initially cut