A major disadvantage of the high-low method of analyzing cost behavior is:

a. It bases its solution on only two possibly extreme observations, rather than all of the data points.
b. It results in its analyzed cost being treated as either fixed or variable, based on which type of behavior it more closely resembles.
c. Two persons could draw different lines through the data points.
d. It enables non-representative points, called outliers, to be identified.


a

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Crabapples, Inc. purchases and sells boxes of dried fruit. The following information summarizes its
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A) $8.00
B) $42.00
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D) $24.13

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