At the end of its first year, the trading securities portfolio consisted of the following common stocks. Cost Fair Value Atrium Corporation $ 46,500 $ 50,000 Barnes Inc. 60,000 58,000 Cantor Corporation 80,000 76,400 $186,500 $184,400 In the following year, the Barnes common stock is sold for cash proceeds of $57,000. The gain or loss to be recognized on the sale is a loss of $2,000. loss of $3,000. loss of $1,000. gain of $1,200.

Owns a machine that can produce two specialized products. production time for product tlx is two units per hour and for product mtv is four units per hour. the machine’s capacity is 2,100 hours per year. both products are sold to a single customer who has agreed to buy all of the company’s output up to a maximum of 3,570 units of product tlx and 1,610 units of product mtv. selling prices and variable costs per unit to produce the products follow. product tlx product mtv selling price per unit $ 11.50 $ 6.90 variable costs per unit 3.45 4.14 determine the company's most profitable sales mix and the contribution margin that results from that sales mix.