Porter Company manufactures products $\mathbf{X}, \mathbf{Y}$, and $\mathbf{Z}$. The following information relates to the three products:

Required:
1. At the current level of sales, which product provides the most profit?
2. With each additional unit of sales, which product provides the least contribution to profit?
3. If you could sell only 5,000 units, but all 5,000 must be either product $X$, $Y$, or $\mathrm{Z}$, which would you sell?
4. If you could sell only 50,000 units, but all 50,000 must be either product $\mathrm{X}, \mathrm{Y}$. or $\mathrm{Z}$, which would you sell?
5. Interpretive Question: If you had $\$ 5,000$ for advertising and each dollar of advertising resulted in a one-unit increase in sales volume, which product would you advertise?

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Sales volume (in units). Sales revenue. Variable costs. Fixed costs. Product X Product Y Product Z 50,000 $150,000 25,000 $125,000 10,000 $100,000 $ 70,000 $100,000 $ 85,000 $ 30,000 $ 30.000 $ 30,000