S. S. Sarkar (S. S.S.), a real estate investment company, is considering investing in a shopping center. The sale price is $5,000,000 and S. S.S. expects to have positive after-tax and after-mortgage payment cash flows from rents of $550,000 for the next three years. S. S.S. can obtain a mortgage with a downpayment of $3,000,000. At the end of the third year, S. S.S. anticipates selling the shopping center for a net after-tax gain on sale of $4,500,000. If S. S.S.'s required return is 30%, should S. S.S. go ahead and purchase the shopping center?

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