Wilkinson & company sells plumbing supplies across the united states. wilkinson uses chicago as its central location for determining freight costs regardless of the city from which products are actually shipped. for example, a dallas customer pays the freight cost from chicago to dallas even if the goods are shipped from dallas. wilkinson most likely uses pricing.

jackie's snacks sells fudge, caramels, and popcorn. it sold 12,000 units last year. popcorn outsold fudge by a margin of 2 to 1. sales of caramels were the same as sales of popcorn. fixed costs for jackie's snacks are $14,000. additional information follows: product unit sales prices unit variable cost fudge $5.00 $4.00 caramels $8.00 $5.00 popcorn $6.00 $4.50 the breakeven sales volume in units for jackie's snacks is