DM labs sell antimicrobial hand gloves. They sell these gloves to laboratories and hospitals. Each pack of gloves costs $10 to make and is sold for $25. The average laboratories or hospitals use 100,000 packs of gloves a year. DM labs are considering spending $5 million on advertising to supplement their sales force efforts. They want to charge the same price and recover that investment. How many additional packs of gloves would they need to sell?

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  1. DM labs sell antimicrobial hand gloves. They sell these gloves to laboratories and hospitals. Each pack of gloves costs $10 to make and is sold for $25. The average laboratories or hospitals use 100,000 packs of gloves a year. DM labs are considering spending $5 million on advertising to supplement their sales force efforts. They want to charge the same price and recover that investment. How many additional packs of gloves would they need to sell?
  2. How many additional new customers would they need to acquire?
  3. A barbershop cuts hair for $40 per customer. It cost them $10 to cut one customer’s hair. The cost of running the store in a year is $15,000. The average customer cuts their hair 24 times a year. Compute the breakeven in unit volume.
  4. Apprentice Mousetraps wants to know how many units of its “Magic Mouse Trapper” it must sell to break even. The product sells for $20. It costs $5 per unit to make. The company’s fixed costs are $30,000.
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