Lone Star Meat Packers is a major processor of beef and other meat products. The

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Lone Star Meat Packers is a major processor of beef and other meat products. The company has a large amount of T-bone steak on hand, and it is trying to decide whether to sell the T-bone steaks as they are initially cut or to process them further into filet mignon and the New York cut. If the T-bone steaks are sold as initially cut, the company figures that a 1-pound T-bone steak would yield the following profit: Selling price ($2.40 per pound) $ 2.40 Less joint costs incurred up to the split-off point where T-bone steak can be identified as a separate product 1.35 Profit per pound $ 1.05 If the company were to further process the T-bone steaks, then cutting one side of a T-bone steak provides the filet mignon and cutting the other side provides the New York cut. One 16-ounce T-bone steak cut in this way will yield one 6-ounce filet mignon and one 8-ounce New York cut; the remaining ounces are waste. It costs $0.15 to further process one T-bone steak into the filet mignon and New York cuts. The filet mignon can be sold for $4.00 per pound, and the New York cut can be sold for $3.20 per pound. Required: 1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of further processing one T-bone steak into filet mignon and New York cut steaks? 2. Would you recommend that the T-bone steaks be sold as initially cut or processed further?

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Per 16-Ounce T-Bone Sales from further processing: Sales price of one filet mignon 1.5 =4/16*6 Sales price of one New York cut 1.6 =3.2/16*8 Total revenue from further processing 3.1 Less sales revenue from one T-bone steak 2.4 Incremental revenue from further processing 0.7 Less cost of further processing 0.15 Profit per pound from further processing 0.55 2 The T-bone steaks should be processed further

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