Stephen muka owned u. s. robotics. he hired his brother chris to work in the company. his letter promised chris $1 million worth of robotics stock at the end of one year, "provided you work reasonably hard and smart at things in the next year." (we should all have such brothers.) chris arrived at robotics and worked the full year, but toward the end of the year, stephen died. his estate refused to give chris the stock, claiming their agreement was a personal satisfaction contract and only stephen could decide whether chris had earned the reward. comment.

Owns a machine that can produce two specialized products. production time for product tlx is two units per hour and for product mtv is four units per hour. the machine’s capacity is 2,100 hours per year. both products are sold to a single customer who has agreed to buy all of the company’s output up to a maximum of 3,570 units of product tlx and 1,610 units of product mtv. selling prices and variable costs per unit to produce the products follow. product tlx product mtv selling price per unit $ 11.50 $ 6.90 variable costs per unit 3.45 4.14 determine the company's most profitable sales mix and the contribution margin that results from that sales mix.