Johnson Petroleum Company Is Considering Pricing Its 5,000 Litre Petroleum

Johnson Petroleum Company is considering pricing its 5,000 litre petroleum tanks using either variable manufacturing or full product costs as the base. The variable cost base provides a prospective price of $2,800 and the full cost base provides a prospective price of $2,850. The difference between the two prices is

A) the amount of profit to be included.
B) due to the fact that the variable cost base must estimate all fixed costs, other variable costs, and desired profit while the full cost base must estimate only desired profit.
C) known as price discrimination.
D) caused by the inability of most companies to estimate fixed cost per unit with any degree of reliability.
E) known as peak pricing.