Williams Products Inc. manufactures and sells a number of items, including school knapsacks. The company has been experiencing

Iosses on the knapsacks for some time, as shown by the contribution format income statement below:

$*$Allocated on the basis of machine$-$hours.

${?}^{}$ Allocated on the basis of sales dollars.

Discontinuing the knapsacks would not affect sales of other product lines and would have no noticeable effect on the company's total

general factory overhead or total purchasing department expenses.

Required:

a$.$ Compute the increase or decrease of net operating income if the Williams Products Inc line is continued or discontinued. $($Input all

amounts as positlve except Decreases in Sales, Decreases In Contribution Margin, and Net Losses which should be Indlcated by a

minus sign.$)$