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The Presidio Company has redesigned one of its products and is deciding on the pricing for the redesigned product. The total product cost to produce the normal volume of 10,000 units is $200,000. Total selling costs are estimated to be $80,000. The target return on investment is 25% and annual investment required to make and sell the normal volume of 10,000 units is $100,000. The company uses the absorption costing approach to compute the mark-up percentage when setting the target price. What is the mark-up percentage?
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a) 48.5%
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b) 50.0%
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c) 52.5%
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d) 90.0%
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