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chapter 10

Unfocused Books is a discount retail bookshop that has three departments: fiction, non-fiction and children’s books. Sales and cost of sales for each department are shown below. In addition, each department has its own fixed costs for staffing and takes a one-third share of rental and management costs for the Bookshop as a whole.

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