Menlo Company distributes a single product

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Menlo Company distributes a single product. The company's sales and expenses for last month follow:

	Total	Per Unit
Sales	$450,000	$30
Variable expenses	180,000	12
Contribution margin	270,000	$18
Fixed expenses	216,000
Net operating income	$54,000

Requirement 1:

What is the monthly break-even point in units sold and in sales dollars? (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Monthly break-even point	units
Sales	$

Requirement 2:

Without resorting to computations, what is the total contribution margin at the break-even point? (Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Total contribution margin at the break-even point

$

Requirement 3:

How many units would have to be sold each month to earn a target profit of $90,000? Use the formula method.

Units sold

units

Requirement 4:

Refer to the original data. Compute the company's margin of safety in both dollar and percentage terms. (Omit the "$" and "%" signs in your response.)

	Dollars	Percentage
Margin of safety	$	%

Requirement 5:

What is the company's CM ratio? If sales increase by $50,000 per month and there is no change in fixed expenses, by how much would you expect monthly net operating income to increase? (Omit the "$" and "%" signs in your response.)

CM ratio	%
Increased net operating income	$

I am getting req 4 wrong many times and it is probably bc even though I got req1-3 correct, I was just within range of the acceptable answer therefore req 4 which is dependent on the previous 3 req is wrong. So could some please show me how to do these req?