Tuff Kids Jeans Co. sells blue jeans wholesale to major retailers across the country. Each pair of jeans has a selling price of $ 30 with $ 21 in variable costs of goods sold. The company has fixed manufacturing costs of $ 1,200,000 and fixed marketing costs of $ 300,000. Sales commissions are paid to the wholesale sales reps at 5% of revenues. The company has an income tax rate of 25%.

Required

1. How many jeans must Tuff Kids sell in order to break even?

2. How many jeans must the company sell in order to reach:

a. a target operating income of $ 450,000?

b. a net income of $ 450,000?

3. How many jeans would TuffKids have to sell to earn the net income in part 2b if (consider each require-ment independently).

a. The contribution margin per unit increases by 10%

b. The selling price is increased to $ 32.50

c. The company outsources manufacturing to an overseas company increasing variable costs per unit by $ 2.00 and saving 60% of fixed manufacturing costs.