Seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but it ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate new york, the erie canal connected the hudson river at albany to the great lakes at buffalo, providing the port of new york city with a direct water link to the heartland of the north american continent.(a) seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but it ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate new york, the erie canal connected.(b) seldom more than 40 feet wide or 12 feet deep but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate new york, the erie canal connected.(c) it was seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, and ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate new york, but the erie canal, connecting.(d) the erie canal was seldom more than 40 feet wide or 12 feet deep and it ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate new york, which connected.(e) the erie canal, seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate new york, connecting.

In each of the cases below, assume division x has a product that can be sold either to outside customers or to division y of the same company for use in its production process. the managers of the divisions are evaluated based on their divisional profits. case a b division x: capacity in units 200,000 200,000 number of units being sold to outside customers 200,000 160,000 selling price per unit to outside customers $ 90 $ 75 variable costs per unit $ 70 $ 60 fixed costs per unit (based on capacity) $ 13 $ 8 division y: number of units needed for production 40,000 40,000 purchase price per unit now being paid to an outside supplier $ 86 $ 74 required: 1. refer to the data in case a above. assume in this case that $3 per unit in variable selling costs can be avoided on intracompany sales. a. what is the lowest acceptable transfer price from the perspective of the selling division? b. what is the highest acceptable transfer price from the perspective of the buying division? c. what is the range of acceptable transfer prices (if any) between the two divisions? if the managers are free to negotiate and make decisions on their own, will a transfer probably take place?