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Carteigh, Inc, is a pork processor. Its plants, located in the Midwest, produce several products from a common process: sirloin roasts, chops, spare ribs, and the residual. The rosus, chops; and spare ribs are packaged, branded, and sold to supernarkets. The mesicual consists of organ theots and leftover pieces that are sold to sausage and hot dog processors: The joint conts for a typical week are as follows: The revenuer from eech prodact are as followsi vitoin roasts, $70,500; chops, $70,500; spare nits, $32,000; and residual, $8,000. -552,200. This would bring the value of the residual down to $2,150. In odelion, the organ meots would need to be pockaged and thet air freighted to Asia. Further processing cost per weck is ethimated to be $25,900 (the cest of rentong addaighal packaging equipenent, purchacing materials, and hiring additional direct labor). Transportation cost would be $10,900 per wek. Finally, resource spending would need to be expanded for other actwities as nell (purchasing, recemna, and internal shipping). The increase in resource sperding for these actuvibes is eitimuted to be $2,900 per werk Required: 1. What as the gross profit earned by the onginal mux of protucts for one week? Seperale the vavan meats tor shipment merseas o What is the eftect of the decison on whekly gross profit? tixs

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