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Colorado Ski Company Makes Downhill Ski Equipment

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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 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 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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