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17 January, 03:37

Zippy Company has a product that it currently sells in the market for $60 per unit. Zippy has developed a new feature that, if added to the existing product, will allow Zippy to receive a price of $75 per unit. The total cost of adding this new feature is $42,000 and Zippy expects to sell 2,700 units in the coming year. What is the net effect on next-year's operating income of adding the feature to the product?

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  1. 17 January, 05:03
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    it will generate a loss for 1,500

    Explanation:

    The new feature will:

    will generate cost for 42,000 increase sales price by 15 sales for 2,700 units

    We will multiply the additional revenue and check if cover the additional cost

    15 x 2,700 = 40,500 additional sales revenue

    we subtract the additional cost

    40,500 - 42,000 = (1,500)

    We have a differencial loss for 1,500 as the additional feature do not cover their cost.
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