What is the contribution margin per unit? Round your answer to the nearest cent. What is the contribution margin ratio? Round your answer to two decimal places. (Express as a decimal-based answer rather than a whole percent amount.) 2. Calculate the sales revenue needed to break even. Round your answer to the nearest dollar. 3. Calculate the sales revenue needed to achieve a target profit of $260,000. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.

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Schylar Pharmaceuticals, Inc., plans to sell 130,000 units of antibiotic at an average price of $15 each in the coming year. Total variable costs equal $702,000. Total fixed costs equal $7,600,000.

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1. What is the contribution margin per unit? Round your answer to the nearest cent.

What is the contribution margin ratio? Round your answer to two decimal places. (Express as a decimal-based answer rather than a whole percent amount.)

2. Calculate the sales revenue needed to break even. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.

3. Calculate the sales revenue needed to achieve a target profit of $260,000. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.

4. What if the average price per unit increased to $16.50? Recalculate the following:

a.  Contribution margin per unit. Round your answer to the nearest cent.

b.  Contribution margin ratio. Enter your answer as a decimal value (not a percentage), rounded to four decimal places.

c.  Sales revenue needed to break even. In your computations, use your rounded answer from part (4-b) above for the contribution margin ratio, and round your final answer to the nearest dollar.

d.  Sales revenue needed to achieve a target profit of $260,000. In your computations, use your rounded answer from part (4-b) above for the contribution margin ratio, and round your final answer to the nearest dollar.

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