Tyrene Products manufactures recreational equipment. One of the company's products, a skateboard, sells for $37.

Tyrene Products manufactures recreational equipment. One of the company’s products, a skateboard, sells for $37.50. The skateboards are manufactured in an antiquated plant that relies heavily on direct labor workers. Thus, variable costs are high, totaling $22.50 per skateboard of which 60% is direct labor cost.Over the past year the company sold 40,000 skateboards, with the following operating results