Salaries Rent Advertising Administrative Total fixed expenses $60,000 50,000 20,000 35,000 $165,000 The product line manager's $60,000 salary is avoidable as is the $20,000 of advertising. Of the administrative expenses, $10,000 is avoidable. The rest are general allocated expenses that will not change if the product is dropped. The rent expense is allocated to product lines based on sales and represents a share of the total cost for the building. If this product line is dropped overall net operating income will decrease by $124,000 O increase by $16,000 O decrease by $34,000 $11.000