Ben & Jerry's Marketing Dashboard (Dollar Sales and Market Share)

Ben & Jerry's Marketing Dashboard (Dollar Sales and Market Share)

-Consider the Ben & Jerry's Dollar Sales and Market Share figure here.A marketing manager for Ben & Jerry's notices that dollar sales for 2015 were $240 million and in 2016 they were $250 million.What was the formula used to calculate the dollar sales for each of these two years?

A) Dollar sales ($) = Average price × Quantity manufactured in each year.
B) Dollar sales ($) = Average cost of goods sold − Fixed costs in each year.
C) Dollar sales ($) = Average price − Shrinkage rate in each year.
D) Dollar sales ($) = Average price × Quantity sold in each year.
E) Dollar sales ($) = Average cost of goods sold − Variable costs in each year.