Multiple Choice
Talboe Company makes wheels which it uses in the production of children's wagons. Talboe's costs to produce 200,000 wheels annually are as follows: An outside supplier has offered to sell Talboe similar wheels for $0.80 per wheel. If the wheels are purchased from the outside supplier, $25,000 of annual fixed manufacturing overhead would be avoided and the facilities now being used to make the wheels would be rented to another company for $55,000 per year.
-What is the highest price that Talboe could pay the outside supplier for each wheel and still be economically indifferent between making or buying the wheels?
A) $0.95
B) $1.15
C) $1.00
D) $1.05
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