The following are the details of two products: Selling price Material cost ($0.70 per kg) Direct...

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The following are the details of two products: Selling price Material cost ($0.70 per kg) Direct labour ($14 per hour) Variable overhead Fixed overheads is $30,000 Per unit $ Product A Per unit $ Product B $50.00 $84.00 $8.50 $13.70 $12.50 $25.00 $4.20 $7.80 The manager is worried about the product choice in the following independent scenario: i) The total sales potential in units as well as in value is limited. ii) Raw material is in short supply. iii) Production capacity is the limiting factor. iv) Total availability of raw material is 20,000 kg. and maximum sales potential of each product is 1,200 units, find the product mix to yield maximum profits. What is the profit? v) The manager has procured a new customer overseas who is willing to buy 400 units of B from the company. He is thinking whether he should accept the order or not and this time he is worried about the capacity since he has only 1500 hours available. Moreover, due to oversea order there is an increase in fixed cost to the extent of $1000. He only intends to sell 750 units of A as per local demand and fulfill this order of B for overseas market. Currently there is no demand for B in local market. He is not sure whether to accept the order or not. Can he fulfill the order? and what is the total profit now? Write a report to the management explaining the above with your analysis and reasons. The following are the details of two products: Selling price Material cost ($0.70 per kg) Direct labour ($14 per hour) Variable overhead Fixed overheads is $30,000 Per unit $ Product A Per unit $ Product B $50.00 $84.00 $8.50 $13.70 $12.50 $25.00 $4.20 $7.80 The manager is worried about the product choice in the following independent scenario: i) The total sales potential in units as well as in value is limited. ii) Raw material is in short supply. iii) Production capacity is the limiting factor. iv) Total availability of raw material is 20,000 kg. and maximum sales potential of each product is 1,200 units, find the product mix to yield maximum profits. What is the profit? v) The manager has procured a new customer overseas who is willing to buy 400 units of B from the company. He is thinking whether he should accept the order or not and this time he is worried about the capacity since he has only 1500 hours available. Moreover, due to oversea order there is an increase in fixed cost to the extent of $1000. He only intends to sell 750 units of A as per local demand and fulfill this order of B for overseas market. Currently there is no demand for B in local market. He is not sure whether to accept the order or not. Can he fulfill the order? and what is the total profit now? Write a report to the management explaining the above with your analysis and reasons.