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Excel Memory Company can sell all units of computer memory X and Y that it can produce, but it has limited production capacity

Accounting Jan 23, 2021

Excel Memory Company can sell all units of computer memory X and Y that it can produce, but it has limited production capacity. It can produce two units of X per hour or three units of Y per hour, and it has 4,050 production hours available. Contribution margin is $7 for product X and $6 for product Y. 1. Calculate contribution margin per production hour. Contribution Margin per Production Hour Product X Product Y Contribution margin per production hour

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Answer:

(1) Computation of contribution margin per production hour

Contribution margin per production hour
  Product X Product Y
Contribution margin per unit (A) $7 $6
Production hours per unit* (B) 0.5 0.33
Contribution margin per production hour (A) / (B) $14 $18.18

Working note :

(1)

Contribution margin per production hour = Contribution margin per unit / Production hours per unit

(2)

Computation of production hours per unit :

Product X Product Y

It can produce 2 units in 1 hour

Hence hours required to produce 1 units = 1/2 = 0.5 hour

It can produce 3 units in 1 hour

Hence hours required to produce 1 units = 1/3= 0.33 hour

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