Regent corp. uses a standard cost system to account for the costs of its one product. materials standards are 2.9 pounds of material at $14 per pound, and labor standards are 4 hours of labor at a standard wage rate of $11. during july regent corp. produced 3,200 units. materials purchased and used totaled 10,010 pounds at a total cost of $141,690. payroll totaled $147,680 for 13,320 hours worked.

Afirm plans to begin production of a new small appliance. the manager must decide whether to purchase the motors for the appliance from a vendor at $10 each or to produce them in-house. either of two processes could be used for in-house production; process a would have an annual fixed cost of $200,000 and a variable cost of $7 per unit, and process b would have an annual fixed cost of $175,000 and a variable cost of $8 per unit. determine the range of annual volume for which each of the alternatives would be best. (round your first answer to the nearest whole number. include the indifference value itself in this answer.)