It's Your Turn. Show Us What YouKnowShannon's Brewery in Keller, Texas isconsidering using a sales team to help itpenetrate market areas not served by itscurrent distributors. However, Shannon Carter,the CEO, wants to know whether it would becheaper to hire an independent outside salesforce rather than hire and train his own salespersonnel. Estimates are that the costs ofhiring, training, and maintaining his own salesforce would entail fixed costs of salaries andadministrative overhead of $300,000 peryear. These sales people would also receive a2.9% commission on all sales. If going with theindependent sales force option, all costs wouldbe variable in that these reps would be paid acommission of 10.8% on all sales. At whatlevel of sales will the costs of each sales forcebe equal? Round your answer to the nearestdollar value. Round your answer to thenearest one dollar.

Let the level of sales be ‘$ X’. At $ X level, the cost of hiring outside sales force and cost of…

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