Healthy Foods, Inc., sells 50-pound bags of yams to the military for 50 bags $18 a bag. The fixed costs of this operation are $114,000, while the variable costs of the yams are $.16 per pound.

a. What is the break-even point in bags?

b. Calculate the profit or loss (EBIT) on 15,000 bags and on 20,000 bags.

c. What is the degree of operating leverage at 15,000 bags and at 20,000 bags?

Why does the degree of operating leverage change as the quantity sold increases?

d. If Healthy Foods has an annual interest expense of $20,000, calculate the degree of financial leverage at both 18,000 and 20,000 bags.

e. What is the degree of combined leverage at both sales levels?