Practical Management Science
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A. You are thinking about opening an oil change shop. Your fixed costs will be $13,000 per month. You will charge customers $28 for a lube-oil filter. The cost of materials is in addition to your fixed costs and is estimated at $8 per customer. How many customers must you have each month in order to break even? Hint: "Break Even" means revenues equal expenses, so we could say "fixed costs+variable costs=revenues"
B. If your shop is open an average of 25 days each month., how many customers do you need each day to break even?
Answer for a: 650 customers
Answer for b: 26 customers per day
please help me set up the equation needed to solve and get the correct answer.
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