6.  A dessert shop plans to purchase a new commercial ice cream maker to replace the old one. They are deciding on two models: Model SUPER costs $3,000 for purchase and $1 in average to make one serving of ice cream. Model PRO costs $5,000 for purchase and a lower cost of $0.8 to make one serving of ice cream. The shop is selling $4 per ice cream serving in average. What would be the monthly demand (in servings) to make Model PRO more preferred? Select one: a. at least 16,000 servings b. no more than 10,000 servings c. at least 10,000 servings d. model PRO is always preferred. e. always no preference.

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A dessert shop plans to purchase a new commercial ice cream maker to replace the old one. They are deciding on two models: Model SUPER costs $3,000 for purchase and $1 in average to make one serving of ice cream. Model PRO costs $5,000 for purchase and a lower cost of $0.8 to make one serving of ice cream. The shop is selling $4 per ice cream serving in average.

What would be the monthly demand (in servings) to make Model PRO more preferred?

Select one:

a.

at least 16,000 servings

b.

no more than 10,000 servings

c.

at least 10,000 servings

d.

model PRO is always preferred.

e.

always no preference.

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Breakeven analysis is a tool which helps to identify the minimum required unit sales for covering all costs. Considering the given values, we can identify the point that facilitate the same cost for both models. The calculation will be like given below. 

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