Problema Solution

A particular company produce widget.Each widget sells for 9$and the variable cost of each unit is 40%of selling price If the monthly fixed costs incurred by the company are 50000 What is the brek even point?

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let 'x' represent the number of widgets produced


Sale price = $9


Total sales for x widgets = 9x


Cost of production per widget =0.4*9= $3.60


the total cost = the total sales


50000+3.60x = 9x


by solving we find:


x= 9,259 widgets


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the break even point is 9,259 widgets.