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At Aspen Trucking Company, the average driver out of its 200 driver employees travels 1,600 miles per week (50 weeks per year) and it charges customers $2.15 per mile. Aspen provides each driver a $95,000 big rig and pays the driver $0.58 per mile. It estimates that the direct cost, other than the driver, for operating a truck is $0.75 per mile. Jack, the sales manager has been working on several ways to grow the revenue of the business by 10%. Since he has had to turn away business, Jack has now decided that the best way to do that is a combination of adding drivers and equipment along with a price increase of 2.5% next year. He knows that a first time driver will only be 75% productive in his or her first year and it will cost $5,500 to recruit each one. Assuming he can get all needed drivers hired by the first working day of the year, what will Aspen’s first year approximate
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a. $8,500
b. ($101,500)
c. $101,500
d. ($1,823,980)
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