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An electronics firm is currently manufacturing an item that has a variable cost of $0.45 per unit and a selling price of $1,05 per unit. Fixed costs are $15,000. Current volume is 30,000 units. The firm can substantially improve the product quality by adding a new piece of equipment at an additional fixed cost of $6,000. Variable cost would increase to 50 70 and the selling price would be revised to 51.15 with the expectation that the volume would be 55,000 units as a result of a higher quality product of the firm does not add new equipment, its profit will be = dollars (round your response to the nearest whole number and include a minus sign if the profit is negative) of the firm does add new equipment, ils profit will be dollars (round your response to the nearest whole number and include a minus sign if the profit is negative) Based on the given information, the decision should be to add new equipment stay as is