Use the following data for the 4th quarter of 2009:
month |
activity volume (#units) |
total costs |
Oct |
90 |
$6,695 |
Nov |
75 |
$6,850 |
Dec |
105 |
$8,350 |
Required:
a) Estimate fixed costs and unit variable costs using the high-low method. (hint: should you use the observations with the highest/lowest activity, or highest/lowest costs?)
FC=
unit VC=
b) Based on the estimates from (a), what is the cost of producing 97 units?
c) Explain why you cannot use the estimates from (a) to predict costs at 5,000 units: