Annie McCoy, a student at Tech, plans to open a hot dog stand inside Tech's football stadium during home games. There are seven home gamesscheduled for the upcoming season. She must pay the Tech athletic department a vendor's fee of $3,000 for the season. Her stand and otherequipment will cost her $4,500 for the season. She estimates that each hot dog she sells will cost her $0.35. She has talked to friends at otheruniversities who sell hot dogs at games. Based on their information and the athletic department's forecast that each game will sell out, sheanticipates that she will sell approximately 2,000 hot dogs during each game. What price should she charge for a hot dog in order to break even?

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Annie McCoy, a student at Tech, plans to open a hot dog stand inside Tech's football stadium during home games. There are seven home games
scheduled for the upcoming season. She must pay the Tech athletic department a vendor's fee of $3,000 for the season. Her stand and other
equipment will cost her $4,500 for the season. She estimates that each hot dog she sells will cost her $0.35. She has talked to friends at other
universities who sell hot dogs at games. Based on their information and the athletic department's forecast that each game will sell out, she
anticipates that she will sell approximately 2,000 hot dogs during each game. What price should she charge for a hot dog in order to break even?

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