Jackson, Inc., manufactures two products that it sells to the same market. Excerpted below are...

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Jackson, Inc., manufactures two products that it sells to the same market. Excerpted below are its budgeted and actual operating results for the year just completed:

Unit Sales budget actual

Product X 22,500 42,000

Product Y 90,000 80,000

Unit contribution margin

Product X 4.80 3.90

Product Y 13.00 14.00

Unit selling price

Product X 13.00 14.00

Product Y 30.00 29.00

Industry volume was estimated to be 1,875,000 units at the time the budget was prepared. Actual industry volume for the period was 2,440,000 units. Jackson measures variances using contribution margin.

The market share variance is:

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