SOLUTION: A site licensing fee for a computer program is $1500. Paying this fee allows the company to use the program at any computer terminal within the company. Alternatively, the compan

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Question 237587: A site licensing fee for a computer program is $1500. Paying this fee allows the company to use the program at any computer terminal within the company. Alternatively, the company can choose to pay $200 for each individual computer it has. How many individual computers must a company have for the site license to be more economical for the company?
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Answer by Theo(13342)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
site license fee = $1500.

without the site license fee, the cost per computer is $200.

1500/200 = 7.5

The site license fee will pay for itself if the company has more than 7 computers at the site.

7 computers costs $1400.

8 computers costs $1600.

$1500 is the break even point.


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