Cranston Corporation makes four products in a single facility. Data concerning these products appear below: The milling machines are potentially the constraint in the production facility. A total of 28,200 minutes are available per month on these machines.
Up to how much should the company be willing to pay for one additional minute of milling machine time if the company has made the best use of the existing milling machine capacity? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)
A) $4.20
B) $11.20
C) $18.80
D) $0.00

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Cranston Corporation makes four products in a single facility. Data concerning these products appear below:  The milling machines are potentially the constraint in the production facility. A total of 28,200 minutes are available per month on these machines.
Up to how much should the company be willing to pay for one additional minute of milling machine time if the company has made the best use of the existing milling machine capacity? (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)
A) $4.20 
B) $11.20 
C) $18.80 
D) $0.00

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11eacbfc_c649_e504_8ffe_0f3732c1ebcf_TB7552_00 The company should be willing to pay up to the contribution margin per minute for the marginal job, which is $4.20 per minute for Product B.

Cranston Corporation Makes Four Products in a Single Facility