The Creamy Pig Ice Cream Maker is a hypothetical company knownfor its bacon-flavored ice cream. The Creamy
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The Creamy Pig Ice Cream Maker is a hypothetical company knownfor its bacon-flavored ice cream. The Creamy Pigmiscalculated the popularity of the bacon craze. Thecompany’s bacon-flavored ice cream did not sell very well and thecompany is going out of business at the end of April. Thecompany has a negative profit (loss) of $100,000 on sales of 25,000gallons of ice cream. The Creamy Pig has variable inputs oflabor, cream, and sugar and a fixed input of a factory which iscovered by a bank loan. For each gallon of ice creamproduced, labor costs $4, cream costs $2, sugar costs $1, and aloan payment costs $2. Assume that The Creamy Pig sells allof the gallons of bacon-flavored ice cream that it produces. Consider the following statements and determine which of the answerchoices is correct.? give reason
- The Creamy Pig’s price per gallon of ice cream is $5 and itsaverage variable cost is $7.
- The Creamy Pig’s fixed cost is greater than its totalrevenue.
Operations Management
ISBN: 9781259270154
6th Canadian Edition
Authors: William J Stevenson, Mehran Hojati, James Cao