Pirate Seafood Company purchases lobsters and processes them into tails and flakes. It sells the lobster tails for $20.40 per pound and the flakes for $15.60 per pound. On average, 100 pounds of lobster are processed into 53 pounds of tails and 24 pounds of flakes, with 23 pounds of waste. Assume that the company purchased 3,500 pounds of lobster for $4 per pound and processed the lobsters with an additional labor cost of $6,800. No materials or labor costs are assigned to the waste. If 1,723 pounds of tails and 762 pounds of flakes are sold, calculate the allocated cost of the sold items and the allocated cost of the ending inventory. The company allocates joint costs on a value basis. (Round your answers to nearest whole number. Round cost per pound answers to 2 decimal places.)

Wo firms, a and b, each currently dump 50 tons of chemicals into the local river. the government has decided to reduce the pollution and from now on will require a pollution permit for each ton of pollution dumped into the river. it costs firm a $100 for each ton of pollution that it eliminates before it reaches the river, and it costs firm b $50 for each ton of pollution that it eliminates before it reaches the river. the government gives each firm 20 pollution permits. government officials are not sure whether to allow the firms to buy or sell the pollution permits to each other. what is the total cost of reducing pollution if firms are not allowed to buy and sell pollution permits from each other? what is the total cost of reducing pollution if the firms are allowed to buy and sell permits from each other? a. $3,000; $1,500 b. $4,500; $3,500 c. $4,500; $4,000 d. $4,500; $2,500