! Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $120 and $80, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $6 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 100,000 units of each product. Its unit costs for each product at this level of activity are given below: Direct materials Direct labour Variable manufacturing overhead Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead Variable selling expenses Common fixed expenses Cost per unit Alpha $ 30 20 7 16 12 15 $100 Beta $ 12 15 5 18 8 10 $ 68 The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be avoidable, whereas its common fixed expenses are deemed unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales dollars. 8. Assume that Cane normally produces and sells 60,000 Betas and 80,000 Alphas per year. If Cane discontinues the Beta product line, its sales representatives could increase sales of Alpha by 15,000 units. If Cane discontinues the Beta product line, how much would profits increase or decrease? Answer is complete but not entirely correct. Profit decreases X by $ 3,080,000