Kathy is an office manager at a growing law firm that specializes in pursuing awards for accident victims. She is assigned as the head of a problem-solving group to decide on where to locate a new, expanded office downtown. A major decision facing the group is whether to rent space in a sleek, new office building or to renovate space in a former factory building. The space in the old factory building would have brick walls and resemble a large loft.

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east westsales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 )the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss) of: multiple choice$91,900$(64,100)$(142,000)$(50,100)