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Ramort Company reports the following for its single product. Ramort produced and sold $21,000$ units this year.

$\backslash$table$[[$Direct materials,$$15$ per unit$],[$Direct labor,$$17$ per unit$],[$Variable overhead,$$8$ per unit$],[$Fixed overhead,$$42,000$ per year$],[$Variable selling and administrative expenses,$$4$ per unit$],[$Fixed selling and administrative expenses,$$66,200$ per year$],[$Sales price,$$75$ per unit$]]$

QS $19-10($Algo$)$ Absorption costing and overproduction LO C$1$

Ramort doubles its production from $21,000$ to $42,000$ units while sales remain at the current $21,000$ unit level.

$($a$)$ Compute gross profit when production is $42,000$ units under absorption costing.

$($b$)$ What is the change in gr$$ss profit by increasing production from $21,000$ units to $42,000$ units under absorption costing?