1. Orlando Company management predicts that it will incur fixed costs of $250,000 and earn pretax income of $350,000 in the next period. Its expected contribution margin ratio is 60%. Use this information to compute the amounts of (1) total dollar sales and (2) total variable costs.

2. Use the following information about sales and costs to prepare a scatter diagram. Draw a cost line that reflects the behavior displayed by this cost. Determine whether the cost is variable, step wise, fixed, mixed, or curvilinear.

Period

Sales

Costs

Period

Sales

Costs

1

$760

$590

9

$580

$390

2

800

560

10

320

240

3

200

230

11

240

230

4

400

400

12

720

550

5

480

390

13

280

260

6

620

550

14

440

410

7

680

590

15

380

260

8

540

430