document.write( "Question 1174764: A publisher for a promising new novel figures fixed costs (overhead, advances, promotion, copy editing, typesetting, and so on) at $52,000, and variable costs (printing, paper, binding, shipping) at $2.80 for each book produced. If the book is sold to distributors for $16 each, how many must be produced and sold for the publisher to break even?\r
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document.write( "Your equation to solve is\r\n" );
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document.write( "    52000 + 2.80x = 16x,\r\n" );
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document.write( "where x is the unknown under the problem's question.\r\n" );
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