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Perreth Dry Cleaners has capacity to clean up to 5,000 garments per month. Requirements 1. Complete the following schedule for the three volumes shown. 2. Why does the average cost per garment change? 3. Suppose the owner, Dan Perreth, erroneously uses the average cost per unit at full capacity to predict total costs at a volume of 2,000 garments. Would he overestimate or underestimate his total costs? By how much? 
Requirement 1. Complete the schedule below for the three volumes shown. (Round all unit costs to the nearest cent and all total costs to the nearest whole dollar.) 
2,000 3,500 
5,000 
Garments Garments Garments 
Total variable costs Total fixed costs 
Total operating costs 
Variable cost per garment Fixed cost per garment 
Average cost per garment 
2,625 
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