Colorado Ski Company makes downhill ski equipment. Assume that New Mexico Ski Company has offered to produce ski poles for Colorado Ski Company for $18 per pair. Colorado Ski Company needs 100,000 pairs of poles per period. Colorado Ski Company can only avoid $125,000 of fixed costs if it outsources; the remaining fixed costs are unavoidable.
Colorado Ski Company currently has the following costs at a production level of 100,000 pairs of poles:
Colorado Ski Company should:
A) Outsource production because operating income would increase by $325,000
B) Not outsource production because operating income would decline by $325,000
C) Outsource production because operating loss would decline by $325,000
D) Not outsource production because operating loss would increase by 325,000
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