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The Greensboro Performing Arts Center (GPAC) has a total capacity of 9,000 seats: 2,600 center seats, 3,100 side seats, and 3,300 balcony seats. The budgeted and actual tickets sold for a Broadway musical show are as follows:
Ticket Price Percentage Occupied
Budgeted Seats Actual Seats
Center $ 11580%85%
Side 1057075
Balcony 957565
The actual ticket prices were the same as those budgeted. Once a show has been booked, the total cost does not vary with the total attendance.
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Compute the following for the show:
1. The budgeted and actual sales mix percentages for different types of seats.
2. The budgeted average contribution margin per seat. Assume the ticket price is also the contribution margin.
3-a. The total sales mix variance.
3-b. The total sales quantity variance.
4. The total sales volume variance.

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