Gorey Products Inc

Multiple Choice

Gorey Products Inc. makes two products—K36L and W81H. Product K36L's selling price is $345.00 and its unit variable cost is $310.50. Product W81H's selling price is $256.00 and its unit variable cost is $230.40. The monthly demand is 430 units for product K36L and 890 units for W81H. The constrained resource is a particular machine that is available for 10,000 minutes each month. Each unit of product K36L requires 15 minutes on this machine and each unit of product W81H requires 8 minutes on this machine.
-The company is considering launching a new product that would have a variable cost of $158.00 per unit and no avoidable fixed costs.It would require 9 minutes of the constrained resource.The absolute minimum acceptable selling price for the new product should be:

A) $178.70
B) $158.00
C) $160.30
D) $186.80