Action Delivery delivers specialty medical supplies to hospitals from its central warehouse. Maureen Fan, the owner and

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Action Delivery delivers specialty medical supplies to hospitals from its central warehouse. Maureen Fan, the owner and manager, charges customers a delivery fee of $2.80 per kilometer. The variable delivery costs reflect the cost of the drivers and the delivery vans. Maureen believes the total variable cost per kilometer is $2.10. The total fixed costs at Action Delivery amount to $280,000 per year. 


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(a) What is the breakeven number of delivery kilometers per year? 

(b) How many kilometers of delivery service must be provided each year to earn a pretax income of $70,000? 

(c) Action Delivery faces a tax rate of 30%. How many kilometers of delivery service must be provided each year to earn an after-tax income of $29,400? 

(d) Maureen has the opportunity to contract out deliveries to an outside supplier who would charge Maureen a fixed fee of $180,000 per year plus $1.90 per kilometer. Under the contracting-out alternative, the existing level of fixed costs would drop to $200,000, making total fixed costs $380,000. At what annual number of delivery kilometers will Maureen be indifferent between continuing doing deliveries herself or contracting out the deliveries?

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