The Detroit Penguins play in the American Ice Hockey League. The Penguins play in the Downtown Arena (owned and managed by the City of Detroit), which has a capacity of 15,000 seats (5,000 lower-tier seats and 10,000 upper-tier seats). The Downtown Arena charges the Penguins a per-ticket charge for use of their facility. All tickets are sold by the Reservation Network, which charges the Penguins a reservation fee per ticket. The Penguins' budgeted contribution margin for each type of ticket in 2007 is computed as follows:

The budgeted and actual average attendance figures per game in the 2007 season are:

There was no difference between the budgeted and actual contribution margin for lower-tier or upper-tier seats.
The manager of the Penguins was delighted that actual attendance was 10% above budgeted attendance per game, especially given the depressed state of the local economy in the past six months.
1. Compute the sales-volume variance for each type of ticket and in total for the Detroit Penguins in 2007. Required (Calculate all variances in terms of contribution margins.)
2. Compute the sales-quantity and sales-mix variances for each type of ticket and in total in 2007.
3. Present a summary of the variances in requirements 1 and 2. Comment on the results?

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Lower-Tier Upper-Tier Tickets Tickets $35 10 $14 Selling price Downtown Arena fee Reservation Network fee Contribution margin per ticketS20 S 5 Budgeted Seats Sold Actual Seats Sold Lower tier Upper tier Tota 4,000 6,000 10,000 3,300 7,700 11,000