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[The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Caiman Distribution Partners is the Brazilian distribution company of a U.S. consumer products firm. Inflation in

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Caiman Distribution Partners is the Brazilian distribution company of a U.S. consumer products firm. Inflation in Brazil has made bidding and budgeting difficult for marketing managers trying to penetrate some of the country's rural regions. The company expects to distribute 450,000 cases of products in Brazil next month. The controller has classified operating costs (excluding costs of the distributed product) as follows:

Account Operating Cost Behavior
Supplies $ 1,048,000 All variable
Supervision 220,000 $ 166,000 Fixed
Truck expense 1,210,000 $ 194,000 Fixed
Building leases 836,000 $ 538,000 Fixed
Utilities 217,000 $ 113,000 Fixed
Warehouse labor 849,000 $ 123,000 Fixed
Equipment leases 761,000 $ 611,000 Fixed
Data processing equipment 949,000 All fixed
Other 869,000 $ 395,000 Fixed
Total $ 6,959,000

Although overhead costs were related to revenues throughout the company, the experience in Brazil suggested to the managers that they should incorporate information from a published index of Brazilian prices in the distribution sector to forecast overhead in a manner more likely to capture the economics of the business.

Following instructions from the corporate offices, the controller's office in Brazil collected the following information for monthly operations from last year:

Month Cases Price Index Operating Costs
1 267,000 105 $5,699,155
2 354,000 108 5,806,654
3 268,000 118 5,849,921
4 420,000 123 5,927,633
5 332,000 127 5,939,151
6 349,000 119 6,043,380
7 391,000 130 5,918,511
8 454,000 136 6,133,884
9 380,000 133 6,126,146
10 405,000 132 6,186,641
11 402,000 131 6,208,815
12 455,000 143 6,362,271

These data are considered representative for both past and future operations in Brazil.

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c-1. Enter the regression coefficients. (Round "Cases" to 5 decimal places.)

c-2. Compute the estimation of operating costs assuming that 450,000 cases will be shipped next month by using the results of a simple regression of operating costs on cases shipped. (Round variable costs per unit to 5 decimal places. Round the intercept and final answer to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

d-1. Enter the regression coefficients. (Round "Cases" to 5 decimal places and "Price Index" to 5 decimal places.)

d-2. Compute the estimation of operating costs assuming that 450,000 cases will be shipped next month by using the results of a multiple regression of operating costs on cases shipped and the price level. Assume a price level of 149 for next month. (Round "Cases" and "Price Index" to 5 decimal places. Round the final answer to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

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