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Transcribed Image Text:TransPacific Airlines (TPA) budgeted 105 million passenger miles, or 5% of the total market for the year just completed, at a
contribution margin of 65 cents per mile. The budgeted average price was 77 cents per passenger mile.
The operating data for the year show that TPA flew 90.72 million passenger miles with an average price of 58 cents per passenger
mile. The terrorist activity in the early part of the year in several countries in the region decreased the total miles flown by all airlines
for the year by 10%. There is no flexible-budget variance for all costs.
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