Large airlines sometimes engage in fuel hedging as a way to avoid wild changes in jet fuel prices. To fuel hedge, an airline purchases a futures contract from an oil company that states they will purchase a set quantity of jet fuel at a specific price in the future regardless of what the actual market price is in the future. a. The value of the hedge will when the price of jet fuel is higher. This is because there is more benefit for a company to protect from by locking in a low price now if the expectation is that jet fuel will be in the future.
b. Southwest Airlines is known for its long-term hedging strategy that has allowed it to remain profitable even in the toughest times. The company was able to shield itself from higher fuel prices by purchasing fuel hedges even when prices were expected to be in the future. When jet fuel prices were actually much higher, the hedging kept their low and helped keep Southwest profitable.

The chromosome manufacturing company produces two products, x and y. the company president, jean mutation, is concerned about the fierce competition in the market for product x. she notes that competitors are selling x for a price well below chromosome's price of $13.50. at the same time, she notes that competitors are pricing product y almost twice as high as chromosome's price of $12.50.ms. mutation has obtained the following data for a recent time period: product x product y number of units 11,000 3,000 direct materials cost per unit $3.23 $3.09 direct labor cost per unit $2.22 $2.10 direct labor hours 10,000 3,500 machine hours 2,100 1,800 inspection hours 80 100 purchase orders 10 30ms. mutation has learned that overhead costs are assigned to products on the basis of direct labor hours. the overhead costs for this time period consisted of the following items: overhead cost item amount inspection costs $16,200 purchasing costs 8,000 machine costs 49,000 total $73,200using direct labor hours to allocate overhead costs determine the gross margin per unit for product x. choose the best answer from the list below.a. $1.93b. $3.12c. $7.38d. $2.43e. $1.73using activity-based costing for overhead allocation, determine the gross margin per unit for product y. choose best answer from list below.a. $10.07b. ($2.27)c. ($5.23)d. ($7.02)e. $7.02