A business operated at 100% of capacity during its first month and incurred the following costs: Production costs (10,000 units): Direct materials $140,000 Direct labor 40,000 Variable factory overhead 20,000 Fixed factory overhead 4,000 $204,000 Operating expenses: Variable operating expenses $ 34,000 Fixed operating expenses 2,000 36,000 If 2,000 units remain unsold at the end of the month and sales total $300,000 for the month, what is the amount of the manufacturing margin that would be reported on the variable costing income statement? Group of answer choices $106,000 $140,000 $104,000 not reported

Acompany that makes shopping carts for supermarkets and other stores recently purchased some new equipment that reduces the labor content of the jobs needed to produce the shopping carts. prior to buying the new equipment, the company used 6 workers, who produced an average of 79 carts per hour. workers receive $16 per hour, and machine coast was $49 per hour. with the new equipment, it was possible to transfer one of the workers to another department, and equipment cost increased by $11 per hour while output increased by four carts per hour. a) compute the multifactor productivity (mfp) (labor plus equipment) under the prior to buying the new equipment. the mfp (carts/$) = (round to 4 decimal places). b) compute the productivity changes between the prior to and after buying the new equipment. the productivity growth = % (round to 2 decimal places)