QUESTION $30$

The Party Company makes $2$ cake plates: A single cake plate that sells for $$5$ and has variable costs of $$3$ and a multi$-$level

cake plate that sells for $$10$ and has variable costs of $$9.$ The company has one machine to use in making the cake plates. The

company can make $16$ single plates per hour and they can make $8$ multi$-$level plates per hour. If the company determines

they have $2,000$ machine hours available and the demand for single level plates is $24,000$ and the demand for multi$-$level

plates is unlimited, what will be the maximum contribution margin they can generate given these constraints?

$$52,000$

$$40,000$

$$16,000$

$$64,000$