The Congress Corporation has two divisions--senate and house. The divisions have the following revenues and expenses:

	senate	house
Sales	$ 585,000	$ 473,000
Variable costs	174,000	228,300
Traceable fixed costs	145,500	207,000
Allocated common corporate costs	131,000	176,800
Net operating income (loss)	$ 134,500	$ (139,100)

The management of congress is considering the elimination of the house Division. If the house Division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. Total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. Given these data, the elimination of the house Division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss) of:

a.$(42,300) negative 42,300

b.$(4,600)

c.$134,500

d.$(139,100)