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Hrubec Products, Incorporated, operates a Pulp Division that manufactures wood pulp for use in the production of various paper goods. Revenue and costs associated with a ton of pulp follow: Hrubec Products has just acquired a small compony that manufactures paper cartons. Hrubec plans to treat its newly acquired Carton Division as a profit center. The manager of the Carton Division is currently purchasing 6,100 tons of pulp per year from a supplier at a cost of $85 per ton. Hrubec's president is anxious for the Carton Division to begin purchasing its pulp from the Pulp Division if the managers of the two divisions can negotiate an acceptable transfor price. Required: For (1) and (2) below, assume the Pulp Division can sell all of its pulp to outside customers for $92 per ton. 1. What is the Pulp Division's lowest acceptable transfer price? What is the Carton Division's highest acceptable transfer price? What is the range of acceptable transfer prices (ff any) between the two divisions? Are the managers of the Carton and Pulp Divisions likely to voluntarily agree to a transfer price for 6,100 tons of pulp next year? 2. If the Pulp Division meets the price that the Carton Division is currently paying to its supplier and sells 6,100 tons of pulp to the Carton Division each year, what will be the effect on the profits of the Pulp Division, the Carton Division, and the company as a whole? For (3)-(6) below, assume that the Pulp Division is currently selling only 30,000 tons of pulp each year to outside customers at the stated $92 price. If the Pulp Division meets the price that the Carton Division is currently paying to its supplier and sells 6,100 tons of pulp to the Carton Division each year, what will be the effect on the profio of the Pulp Division, the Carton Division, and the company as a whole? (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

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