Sales Mix and Break-Even Sales Data related to the expected sales of laptops and tablets for Tech Products Inc. for the current year, which is typical of recent years, are as follows:

Products	Unit Selling Price	Unit Variable Cost	Sales Mix
Laptops	$1,600	$800	40%
Tablets	850	350	60%

The estimated fixed costs for the current year are $2,498,600.

Required:

1. Determine the estimated units of sales of the overall (total) product, E, necessary to reach the break-even point for the current year.

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2. Based on the break-even sales (units) in part (1), determine the unit sales of both laptops and tablets for the current year. Laptops

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3. Assume that the sales mix was 50% laptops and 50% tablets. Compute the break-even point of the overall (total) product E.

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Why is it so different? The break-even point is ___higer / lower________in this scenario than in part (1) because the sales mix is weighted ___more/less_______heavily toward the product with the ______higer/lower_______ contribution margin per unit of product.