Lucky cow dairy provided the following expense information for may: assemblyminus−line workers' wages$72,000caps for milk bottles 3,000reconfiguring the assembly line125,000customer support hotline10,000delivery expenses20,000depreciation on factory equipment75,000plastic milk bottles52,000salaries of salespeople63,000salaries of research scientists70,000customer tollminus−free order line6,000what is the total cost of research and development of the value chain? $70,000

Owns a machine that can produce two specialized products. production time for product tlx is two units per hour and for product mtv is four units per hour. the machine’s capacity is 2,100 hours per year. both products are sold to a single customer who has agreed to buy all of the company’s output up to a maximum of 3,570 units of product tlx and 1,610 units of product mtv. selling prices and variable costs per unit to produce the products follow. product tlx product mtv selling price per unit $ 11.50 $ 6.90 variable costs per unit 3.45 4.14 determine the company's most profitable sales mix and the contribution margin that results from that sales mix.