1. Harrison Hotels is considering adding a spa to its current facility in order to improve its list of amenities. Operating the spa would require a fixed cost of $22710 a year. Variable cost is estimated at $38 per customer. The hotel wants to break even if 12,000 customers use the spa facility. What should be the price of the spa services?

2. Oakwood Outpatient Clinic rents a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine for 26 hours a month for use on its patients. Last month the machine was used 22 hours out of the month. What was machine utilization?

3. Kaizer Plastics produces a variety of plastic items for packaging and distribution. One item, container #145, has had a low contribution to profits. Last year, 20500 units of container #145 were produced and sold. The selling price of the container was $30 per unit, with a variable cost of $15 per unit and a fixed cost of $67000 per year.

The company is currently considering ways to improve profitability. Management believes that it can reduce their variable cost to 90 percent of their current value. Assuming all other costs equal, by how much would profits increase?