The management of Thews Corporation is considering dropping product E28I. Data from the company's accounting system appear below:

Sales $471,000
Variable expenses $212,000
Fixed manufacturing expenses $163,000
Fixed selling and administrative expenses $138,000
All fixed expenses of the company are fully allocated to products in the company's accounting system. Further investigation has revealed that $83,000 of the fixed manufacturing expenses and $63,000 of the fixed selling and administrative expenses are avoidable if product E28I is discontinued.

Required:

a.What is the net operating income (loss) earned by product E28I according to the company's accounting system?

b.What would be the effect on the company's overall net operating income of dropping product E28I?

The net operating income would increase or decrease by how much $

b-2. Should the product be dropped?