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Mohave Corporation makes several varletles of beach umbrellas and accessorles. It has been approached by a company called Lost

Mine Industries about producing a special order for a custom umbrella called the Ultimate Shade $($US$).$ The special$-$order umbrellas with the Lost Mine Company logo would be distributed to participants at an upcoming convention sponsored by Lost Mine.

Lost Mine offered to buy $2,500$ US umbrellas at a price of $$23$ each. Mohave currently has the excess capacity necessary to accept

the offer. The following information is related to the production of the US umbrella:

Required:

$1.$Compute the Incremental profit $($or loss$)$ from accepting the special order.

$2.$Should Mohave accept the special order?

$3.$Suppose the special order had been to purchase $3,000$ umbrellas for $$20\mathrm{.}00$ each. Recompute the incremental profit $($or loss$)$ from

accepting the special order under this scenarlo.

$4.$Assume Mohave is operating at full capacity. Calculate the special$-$order price per unit at which Mohave would be Indifferent

between accepting or rejecting the special order.

Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below.

$1.$ Compute the incremental profit $($or loss$)$ from accepting the special order.

$2.$ Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below.

Should Mohave accept the special order?

$3.$ Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below.

Suppose the special order had been to purchase $3,000$ umbrellas for $$20\mathrm{.}00$ each. Recompute the incremental profit $($or loss$)$

from accepting the special order under this scenario.

$4.$ Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below.

Assume Mohave is operating at full capacity. Calculate the special$-$order price per unit at which Mohave would be indifferent

between accepting or rejecting the special order.

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