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Two people decide to open a business reconditioning toner cartridges for copy machines. They rent a building for $7000/year and estimate that building maintenance, taxes, and insurance will cost$6500/year. Each person wants to make $12/h in the first year and will work 10 h per day for 260 days of the year. Assume that it costs$28 to restore a cartridge and that the restored cartridge can be sold for $45. How many cartridges must the business restore and sell annually to break even, not including the hourly wage the owners wish to earn?
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VerifiedIn order to break even, Cost to operate () should be equal to total revenue().
If is the number of cartridges to be sold in order to beak even, then:
Hence, should be sold annually to break even.
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