What are two attractive business options when a company decides to test market a new to the world product? Your select a large area but spends only a little amount of money select a large area on a large budget selects a small area and only spends a small amount of money selects only a small area to try out the product, but spends a huge amount of money on all parts of the marketing mix

Lusk corporation produces and sells 14,300 units of product x each month. the selling price of product x is $25 per unit, and variable expenses are $19 per unit. a study has been made concerning whether product x should be discontinued. the study shows that $72,000 of the $102,000 in monthly fixed expenses charged to product x would not be avoidable even if the product was discontinued. if product x is discontinued, the annual financial advantage (disadvantage) for the company of eliminating this product should be:

Doogan corporation makes a product with the following standard costs: standard quantity or hours standard price or rate direct materials 2.0 grams $ 7.00 per gram direct labor 1.6 hours $ 12.00 per hour variable overhead 1.6 hours $ 6.00 per hour the company produced 5,000 units in january using 10,340 grams of direct material and 2,320 direct labor-hours. during the month, the company purchased 10,910 grams of the direct material at $7.30 per gram. the actual direct labor rate was $12.85 per hour and the actual variable overhead rate was $5.80 per hour. the company applies variable overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours. the direct materials purchases variance is computed when the materials are purchased. the materials quantity variance for january is:

Atelephone call center uses three customer service representatives (csrs) during the 8: 30 a.m. to 9: 00 a.m. time period. the standard service rate is 3.0 minutes per telephone call per csr. assuming a target labor utilization rate of 80 percent, how many calls can these three csrs handle during this half-hour period?