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PROBLEM 6.1B
BIG OAK LUMBER (concluded)
Big Oak seems quite able to pass its extra transportation costs on to its customers and, in
(1) $1,000,000 sales 22% = $220,000
(2) $698,500 gross profit $1,422,000 net sales = 49.1%
Big Oak earned a gross profit rate of 49.1%, which is significantly higher than the industry
average. Big Oak’s sales were a little greater than the industry average, but it earned
$478,500 more gross profit than the “average” store of its size. This higher gross profit was