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Question 261870: You start a t-shirt company using 2000 dollars for the machines. Each shirt costs 4 dollars. After you use the machines to put a picture on them you sell it for 22 dollars. How many shirts do you need to sell to break even? Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
Let represent the number of shirts you both make and sell. Then the cost to make those shirts is:
The amount of revenue you make:
You break even when the revenue equals the cost, so:
Solve for . If you get a fractional answer, round up. You can't sell a fractional part of a shirt, and if you round down you won't have quite broken even.
