Henrietta, the owner of a very successful hotel chain in the southeast, is exploring the possibility of expanding the chain into a city in the northeast. she incurs $32,000 of expenses associated with this investigation. based on the regulatory environment for hotels in the city, she decides not to expand. during the year, she also investigates opening a restaurant that will be part of a national restaurant chain. her expenses for this are $51,400. she proceeds with opening the restaurant, and it begins operations on may 1. determine the amount henrietta can deduct in the current year for investigating these two businesses. in your computations, round the per-month amount to the nearest dollar and use rounded amount in subsequent computations. a. the deductible amount of investigation expenses related to expansion of her hotel chain into another city: $ b. the deductible amount of investigation expenses related to opening a restaurant: $

The chromosome manufacturing company produces two products, x and y. the company president, jean mutation, is concerned about the fierce competition in the market for product x. she notes that competitors are selling x for a price well below chromosome's price of $13.50. at the same time, she notes that competitors are pricing product y almost twice as high as chromosome's price of $12.50.ms. mutation has obtained the following data for a recent time period: product x product y number of units 11,000 3,000 direct materials cost per unit $3.23 $3.09 direct labor cost per unit $2.22 $2.10 direct labor hours 10,000 3,500 machine hours 2,100 1,800 inspection hours 80 100 purchase orders 10 30ms. mutation has learned that overhead costs are assigned to products on the basis of direct labor hours. the overhead costs for this time period consisted of the following items: overhead cost item amount inspection costs $16,200 purchasing costs 8,000 machine costs 49,000 total $73,200using direct labor hours to allocate overhead costs determine the gross margin per unit for product x. choose the best answer from the list below.a. $1.93b. $3.12c. $7.38d. $2.43e. $1.73using activity-based costing for overhead allocation, determine the gross margin per unit for product y. choose best answer from list below.a. $10.07b. ($2.27)c. ($5.23)d. ($7.02)e. $7.02